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(0)Sherri Smith
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
585 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Mia Haas has built a life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up. Then she receives word that her twin brother is missing, and is forced to return home. Once the golden boy of their town, now a popular high school teacher, Lucas Haas disappeared the day the body of one of his students was pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of his affair with the teen and the media's portrayal of him as a murderer, Mia is desperate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It s up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American military pilots who helped the United States win World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it....
5) Flygirl
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this...