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3) Hair love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes. The text is...
9) Shoelaces
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American girl describes the joys of all different kinds of shoelaces.
10) Swim, Mo, swim!
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great-great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a courthouse where only rich white men were allowed to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up, and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish, and then he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home, it only makes matters worse.
Author
Series
Keena Ford volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Keena Ford chronicles her many mishaps as she begins second grade.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
17) Princess Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grace wants to participate in her community festival's princess float, but first she must decide what sort of a princess she wants to be--from an African princess in kente cloth robes to a floaty pink fairy tale princess.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
20) Alec's primer
Author
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
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