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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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"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"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
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This collection of essays by scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black history, racism, and the struggles of black Americans following emancipation. In his groundbreaking work, the author presciently writes that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,"...
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Pub. Date
1967.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
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Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his heritage.
10) The undefeated
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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
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"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"--
11) Roots
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Pub. Date
1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Description
A black American traces his family's origins back to the African who was brought to America as a slave in 1767.
12) My first Kwanzaa
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Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A girl describes how she and her family celebrate the seven days of Kwanzaa.
13) Goggles!
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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.
14) John Henry
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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
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Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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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,...
16) Pet show!
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Recounts actor Sidney Poitier's public and private life as he broke racial barriers to launch a pioneering acting career playing characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition. Includes photographs.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi...
19) Invisible man
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A Vintage book volume 715
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
20) Freewater
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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