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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
2) John Henry
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Series
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2013, 1997
Language
English
Description
In 1857 while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, fourteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father, and she tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.
9) My "p" book
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
Special rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
Little p fills her box with things beginning with the letter p and they all have a parade.
10) My "u" book
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
Special rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
Little "u" fills her box with umbrellas and many other things that begin with the short letter "u".
11) My "j" book
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
Special rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
Little j fills his box with many things beginning with the letter "j."
12) My "v" book
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
Special rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
After putting violets, velvet, and a veil in her box, Little v makes valentines with them and gives a party.
14) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is a brief biography of the African American who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that chand the nation's laws.
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