James Ransome
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north. Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that the people...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Shares the story of the sisters and tennis stars, including their special relationship as sisters and best friends, their constant training as children, and their incredible success in professional tennis.
6) My teacher
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A student wonders why her teacher has chosen to teach in her school for so long, and highlights all the special things her teacher does for her class.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 1000L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
9) Visiting day
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 1150L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages: color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...
11) My best shoes
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the variety of shoes that can be worn, from sturdy lace up high shoes to naked feet and toe shoes.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In Harlem in the 1920s, in the middle of a family Christmas party, Marie receives a nutcracker from her Uncle Cab, which leads to a marvelous dream in this resetting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's familiar tale.
13) Freedom bird
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
16) The wagon
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Mulberry ed.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln.
18) Quilt alphabet
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
For Helen Keller, "w-a-t-e-r" was a cool, slippery splash. "S-u-n" was the warm afternoon glow coating her skin. "L-i-l-y" was a sweet-smelling petal, soft and delicate to her touch. After an illness left her blind and deaf, Helen relied on her senses of touch and smell to help compensate for her loss. And then she met her teacher, Annie Sullivan, who showed her a new way to give meaning to the world around her. But most of all, Annie gave Helen a...