Evelyn Coleman
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she had escaped from only two years earlier. Includes a brief overview of the experiences of African Americans during Reconstruction, the period immediately following the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old C©♭cile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Oseola McCarty, a hard-working washer woman who, without a formal education herself, donated a portion of her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for needy students.
7) To be a drum
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.