African Americans

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

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In this emotional and thought-provoking book of poetry, bestselling author Nikki Grimes finds inspiration from poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Moved by the evocative verse of legendary writers from the era, Grimes has composed gorgeous new poetry with timely themes for today. By using the "Golden Shovel" poetic form, she has created wholly original poems based on the works of master poets like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, and others who enriched history during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Nikki Grimes

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

Trouble the Water

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There's an old yellow dog wandering around town, and you can bet that eleven-year-old Callie--fearless, a little stubborn, and a lot nosy--is gonna figure out who he belongs to. But her sleuthing causes her to cross paths with Wendell, a white boy her very same age. As the two try to find the old dog's owner, their segregated town doesn't take kindly to their new friendship.

Author:

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Lexile:

920L

Crispus Attucks and African American Patriots of the American Revolution

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Crispus Attucks was a former slave who was killed during the Boston Massacre in 1770. Today, he is known as a hero who died fighting for his country. This interactive eBook focuses on the important contributions made by African American men and women during the Revolution, and how they played a major role in the country's fight for independence. Interactive features including maps, quizzes, timelines, and actor-narrated audio will hold readers' interest and encourage further study of American heroes and patriots.

Crispus Attucks and African American Patriots of the American Revolution

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

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In 1963, the Civil Rights movement was falling apart. After a series of setbacks across the south, the movement was losing direction and momentum. No southern city was more divided than Birmingham, Alabama, home of the infamous Bull Connor.

Author:

Cynthia Levinson

Lexile:

1020L

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Black Like Me (2012)

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In 1964, just as Washington was passing the Civil Rights Act, some of Hollywood's most passionate activists interpreted John Howard Griffin's brave chronicle Black Like Me for the screen, with James Whitmore starring as the writer, who, in 1959, medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his

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Middle

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1964

Monster

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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me: Monster.

Author:

Walter Dean Myers

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

670L

Length:

02:35

A Lesson Before Dying (Abridged Fiction)

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Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only survivor, he is tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, a university-trained teacher at the plantation school, is persuaded to visit Jefferson in his cell. Wiggins is torn between staying in his native Cajun community or moving on.

Author:

Ernest J. Gaines

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

750L

Length:

03:03

A Lesson Before Dying (Abridged Fiction)

Sidewalk Story (Unabridged)

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When her best friend's family is evicted from their apartment, a nine-year-old black girl decides to do something about the situation.

Author:

Sharon Bell Mathis

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

510L

Length:

01:11

La Vida Secreta de las Abejas: Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)

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Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartiran y pasaran a sus hijas por generaciones.

Author:

Sue Monk Kidd

Grade Level:

High

Length:

10:47

La Vida Secreta de las Abejas: Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Unabridged)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.

Author:

Zora Neale Hurston

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1080L

Length:

06:44

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Unabridged)

African Americans

Black Like Me (2012)

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