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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: A manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision for change.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
3) My "j" book
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World, Inc
Language
English
Description
Little j fills his box with many things beginning with the letter "j."
8) Jazz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.
“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation....
“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation....
9) Writings
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although he doesn't feel like talking, a young boy responds to questions by drumming on various objects, including a bucket, hat boxes, and garbage cans, echoing the city sounds around him.
15) The bus ride
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A black child protests an unjust law in this story loosely based on Rosa Parks' historic decision not to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publication
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Addy's new life in Philadelphia in the late 1860s continues to hold surprises, as she competes in a kite festival and her teacher recommends her for the Institute for Colored Youth. Includes informational pages about the Institute for Colored Youth and how to make a kite.
Author
Language
English
Description
The harrowing true story that inspired the critically acclaimed film
The son of a freed slave, Solomon Northup lived the first thirty years of his life as a free man in upstate New York. In the spring of 1841, he was offered a job: a short-term, lucrative engagement as a violinist in a traveling circus. It was a trap. In Washington, DC, Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years on plantations...
The son of a freed slave, Solomon Northup lived the first thirty years of his life as a free man in upstate New York. In the spring of 1841, he was offered a job: a short-term, lucrative engagement as a violinist in a traveling circus. It was a trap. In Washington, DC, Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years on plantations...
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