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Author
Series
Ending fire trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But dust always rises in a storm. Hassa moves through the...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sent to buy special butter for Mama Pearl's candied sweet potatoes and told to get back lickety-split, Little Cliff is delayed by all his neighbors when they want to contribute their own ingredients.
4) Uptown
Author
Language
English
Description
A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While sitting through a fearsome thunderstorm that has put the lights out, Thomas hears a story from Grandfather's boyhood, when Grandfather was afraid of thunderstorms.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Rev. and newly ill. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl delights her brother with a series of promises about all the wonderful things she'll do to make him happy as they both grow up.
13) Tops & bottoms
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
14) Go fish
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage.
15) Silba por Willie
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Willie longs to be able to whistle for his dog and makes many ingenious attempts.
17) Down the road
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she runs into trouble when she stops to pick apples.
20) Dizzy Gillespie
Author
Publisher
Melrose Square
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
Illustrated ed.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Afro-American musician and "ambassador of jazz" who introduced the world to "bebop."
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