E. B Lewis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E.B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One hundred years before Rosa Parks took her stand, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings tried to board a streetcar in New York City on her way to church. Though there were plenty of empty seats, she was denied entry, assaulted, and threatened all because of her race -- even though New York was a free state at that time. Lizzie decided to fight back. She told her story, took her case to court -- where future president Chester Arthur represented her -- and...
12) The walk
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As a little girl accompanies her grandma on a walk to the polling station, members of their community join and the grandmother explains the importance of their journey.
14) I love my hair!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of Sarah Roberts and her 1847 case petitioning that she be allowed to attend a white school, explaining how her heroic efforts established key precedents and paved the way for civil rights advancements.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years, quartz fragments have traveled down the Delaware River (once called the Wehittck by the Lenape Indians), washing ashore near a place settled by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey, where they are gathered as treasures and known as Cape May Diamonds.
17) My best friend
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Lily has a best friend all picked out for play group day, but unfortunately the differences between first-graders and second-graders are sometimes very large.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"George Scott peered at the nearby Union fortress. Something miraculous was taking place! Three enslaved men had entered but had not been cast out. To Scott, the fortress must be a sanctuary. A place where the three would be safe from capture and harm--never to return to the Confederate South. But exactly why were they granted refuge? Scott left the woods where he had been hiding and joined others in line to enter the fortress. Once inside, his knowledge...