Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure

With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life! Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So, for hi…

Koya DeLaney and the good girl blues

Little Koya Delaney has a knack for hiding what she truly feels with her infectious laugh that leaves everyone happy - except herself. Koya is upset by an argument that her sister Loritha had with her dear friend Dawn right before a double-dutch jump rope contest. Not sure what to do about the situation, she remains angry with the both of them, and confused by the situation. To further her bad …

Let's read about.... Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks believed in herself and worked hard to succeed from the time she was a girl. Read about Rosa, a young woman who helped change history when she fought for black people's equal rights.

Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott

A riveting account of the civil rights boycott that changed history by the foremost author of history for young people. Now a classic, Freedman’s book tells the dramatic stories of the heroes who stood up against segregation and Jim Crow laws in 1950s Alabama. A master of succinct historical narratives, Freeman explains the contributions of and sacrifices made by Rosa Parks and Claudette …

Philip Hall likes me. I reckon maybe

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0439168287

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135 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

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The skin I'm in

Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss S…

African-Americans in the thirteen colonies

Using many photographs, this is a simple overview of the part played by African Americans during the formative years of the colonial period. The freedom sought by so many Europeans who came to America was not shared with many Africans & their descendants. The brief descriptions in this book tell of slavery as well as the limited freedoms of free blacks. Phillis Wheatley, Jean Baptiste Pointe du…

Sounder

Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him. During the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the boy's father takes their dog, Sounder, out to look for food and the man grows more desperate by the day…

Bird

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent in Illustrations, EMIERT/ALA Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Best Books, Kirkus Reviews Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews Notable Children's Book, American Library Association (ALA) Children's Books of the Year, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Editor's Favorites, The Bloomsbury Review Starred Review, The Horn Book Story Telling Worl…

Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs : lost in the tunnel of time

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ISBN/ISSN

0439574641

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81 pages : illustration ; 19 cm

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