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Author
Series
I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes : Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes the Native Americans who crossed the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, the European explorers and settlers, and the African slaves who were brought to the Americas.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Identifies the social, cultural, political, and economic factors that helped slaves from various regions of the African continent integrate their individual religions, artistic expressions, and languages into a distinctive African American culture.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and shows how placing African American, Latinx,...
11) The brave
Author
Series
Contender volume Bk. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Salsa, Soul and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Nation" puts forth a multicultural leadership model that integrates eight practices from African American, Indian and Latino communities. This model offers leaders new approaches that will increase their interpersonal effectiveness with diverse populations by incorporating the influences, practices and values of a variety of cultures in a respectful and productive manner.
15) Cane
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons. Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who...
18) Escape south
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ben and his family escape from their slave-owner and go to Florida, where they join other black families who are living with the Seminole Indians and help them fight to keep their lands.
20) Black Indians
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of relations between blacks and American Indians, and the existence of black Indians, from the earliest foreign landings through pioneer days.