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1) Tar Beach
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
5) Uptown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Coretta Scott King illustrator award book : 2001.
A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
8) Rainbow Stew
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On a rainy summer day, three children and their grandpa pick vegetables in his garden and then cook and share a delicious meal of his famous Rainbow Stew. Includes recipe"--
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz/Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is colored, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
13) I love my hair!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003], c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair. On board pages.
14) The new kid
Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?"--
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Coretta Scott King illustrator award book : 2000.
Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma, the daughter of poor migrant workers, longs to own a real book, and when she turns eight and must attend school for the first time, she is amazed to discover a whole library in her classroom.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
C.J., who aspires to be as great a jazz musician as his uncle, searches for Uncle Click's hat in preparation for an important photograph and inadvertently gathers some of the greatest musicians of 1950s Harlem to join in on the picture.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
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