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Author
Series
American girl volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cecile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
Author
Series
American girl volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Now that the yellow fever epidemic is over, the people of New Orleans raise money to care for the orphans, and Cecile seeks to discover something special she can to do help.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
127 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Melody learns that leadership can be difficult when she tries to fix up her neighborhood playground but then gets to help her brother by singing on a recording in a real Motown studio.
5) Meet Cécile
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
109 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Abridged edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Melody is excited to sing her first solo and gleans inspiration from her brother's love of Motown and the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., but it soon becomes clear that things in the country are not fair for African Americans like her.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
94 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cécile is enjoying her older brother Armand's return from France and her growing friendship with Marie-Grace, with whom she volunteers at an orphanage, until the yellow fever epidemic theatening New Orleans strikes her own household.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers choose from a variety of options in a multiple ending story as they join in Addy's Civil War-time adventures to outrun a slave catcher, raise money for soldiers, and search for Addy's family.
Author
Series
American girl volume 4
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An affluent black family fights against illness and death when a terrible outbreak of yellow fever strikes New Orleans in the summer of 1853.
10) John Lewis
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the time John Lewis asked Dr. Martin Luther King to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown as teenager, he never stopped organizing, from Freedom Rides, to the marches in Selma and Washington, and more.