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1) Tippy Lemmey
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Pbks
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about. When Precious is left home alone with a stomachache, she's got nothing but a warning from Mama -- "
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of one of baseball's greatest pitchers, who was unable to play Major League baseball due to segregation for many years, after which he became the first black pitcher in the American League.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
7) Away west
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
11) Never forgotten
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoin
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Depression in Nashville, Tennessee, two baseball-loving brothers host Josh Gibson, a star of the Negro Leagues, in their home, and are motivated to get their own team started as well.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
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