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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's New Books: April 2022 Nonfiction
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's New Books: April 2022 Nonfiction
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Description
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood, and as many as three hundred African Americans were killed, most buried in unmarked graves. Thousands were left homeless. No official investigation occurred until seventy-five years later. Unspeakable helps young readers understand the events of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial...
3) The Jacket
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.
4) Seeing red
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Formats
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
This book is a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. First, their friend T.J. must go on trial for murder -- and confront an all-white jury. Then, Cousin Suzella tries to pass for white, with humiliating consequences. And when Cassie's neighbor, Mrs. Lee Annie, stands up for her right to vote, she and her family are driven from their home. Other neighbors are destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Reveals the history of African American children--from the first recorded birth of a black child in Jamestown, Virginia, to the present day--through historical documents, journal entries, news articles, and interviews.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
1998, ©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
13) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
14) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Children's Awards: Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title will inform readers about nonviolent resistance during the civil rights movement. The title will discuss Martin Luther King Jr., who helped organize nonviolent protests, as well as others involved, and the types of nonviolent protests--like sit-ins.
17) Glory be
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
18) Francie
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What was it like to live through the Civil Rights Movement? What events caught the public's attention? How did ordinary people bring about change? Discover the people who made a difference in the future of the nation, and learn how some things we take for granted today were the result of long struggles, peaceful protests, and pressure on the government.
Author
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The Civil Rights Movement was a time of drastic change in America. From the end of Reconstruction, when blacks were denied their rights in the South, through the Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, to the election of the first black president of the United States, witness the events that forever changed the way we look at race.
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