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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."
10) Choctaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents information about the Native American tribe known as Choctaw, describing their history, clothing, food, social roles, hunting customs, religious beliefs, and decline in the nineteenth century after encounters with European settlers.
12) Creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"[An introduction to the Creek people, covering] traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, "to jump at de sun", because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you'd get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn't been...
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