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Author
Series
Dear America volume 5
Language
English
Description
In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
8) Bugs!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Rev. ed.
Lexile measure
110L
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
Scholastic ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 720L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After barn mice make a collar with a bell to warn them when Marmalade the cat is approaching, Smart Mouse must devise a way to safely put the collar on her in this retelling of a Aesop fable.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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 ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.