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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1985
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61p illus (part col)
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
122p illus
Language
English
Description
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
146p illus map
Language
English
Description
A collection of fictional letters recreates the life and times of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped to freedom in the 1840s and who became a published author and abolitionist
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
130 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish owned Caribbean island of St. John as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amid the Depression, the Logan family struggles to protect their Mississippi farm and begins to feel the pressures of racial unrest when a friend is unjustly convicted of a crime by a white jury.
16) Amazing Grace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the end of the Civil War in 1865, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache.
19) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their great coon dog, Sounder, to try to put food on the table. But even with the little they bring back, there is still never enough for the family to eat.
When the boy awakens one morning to a sweet-smelling ham on the table, it seems like a blessing. But soon, the sheriff and his deputies come to the house and take the boy’s father away in handcuffs....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.