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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Black History Month 2023
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
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Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Pub. Date
1967.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Black History Month
Black History & Activism: Recommended Reading for MLK Day
Black History Month 2023
DAML Black History Month Picture Books
Black History & Activism: Recommended Reading for MLK Day
Black History Month 2023
DAML Black History Month Picture Books
Description
"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
9) Goggles!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two boys find a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles and, with the help of their dog, elude the bigger boys who try to steal them from them.
10) John Henry
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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DAML Black History Month Picture Books
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Description
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It was a day when Max didn't feel like talking to anyone. He just sat on his front steps and watched the clouds gather in the sky. A strong breeze shook the tree in front of his house, and Max saw two heavy twigs fall to the ground. So begins this story of a young boy's introduction to the joys of making music. Max picks up the sticks and begins tapping out the rhythms of everything he sees and hears around him-the sound of pigeons startled into flight,...
12) Pet show!
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
300L
Description
When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.
13) The snowy day
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than this book. With its universal appeal, the story has become a favorite with millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. -- Publisher description.
14) Freewater
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Title on accompanying disc: The people could fly : an American-African folktale.Narrated by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. Pea-pod man: Raven the creator -- Finding night: Quat the creator -- Endless sea of mud: Death the creator -- Bursting from the hen's egg: Phan Ku the creator -- Traveling to form the world: Old Man the creator -- First man becomes the devil: Ulgen the creator -- Turtle dives to the bottom of the sea: Earth Starter the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Daisy, an eight-year-old black girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different color from that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.
18) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Reprint: Originally published: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1991."First Scholastic printing, September, 1993"--Verso t.p.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. Reading Rainbow (Television series) collection--look for green spine label.