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In 1964, Melody learns that leadership can be difficult when she tries to fix up her neighborhood playground but then gets to help her brother by sing...
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other ...
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Learn all about the childhood of America's most famous civil rights activist in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read! Young Martin Luther King Jr. is...
In 1964 Detroit, nine-year-old Melody pursues her singing dreams unti a tragic event in Birmingham, Alabama, shakes her confidence....
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"From the time John Lewis asked Dr. Martin Luther King to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown as teenager, he never stopped organizing,...
Reesie Boone just knows that thirteen is going to be her best year yet-this will be the year she makes her very first fashion design on her Ma Maw's s...
Denise Lewis Patrick's own childhood memories of visits with her grandmother are the inspiration for this story. Through lyrical prose and colorful il...
Engineering Wizard
Get ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Lead...
What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would...
Melody is excited to sing her first solo and gleans inspiration from her brother's love of Motown and the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., but it soo...
Get ready to go on an adventure with Lewis Latimer in this middle grade biography perfect for fans of the Who Was series! Lewis was one of the greates...
In 1964, ten-year-old African American singer Melody Ellison decides to fix up her Detroit neighborhood playground and plant a garden, but when her fr...
From Silver Screen to Oval Office
Ronald Reagan: From Silver Screen to Oval Office A charismatic, yet firm leader, President Ronald Reagan stood up to the Soviet Union and helped end c...
Even though his parents do not own a car, Matthew looks forward to Saturday mornings when all the people on his street wash their cars....
Freedom's Voice
Get ready to sing for justice with Mahalia Jackson in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Lead...
Discover the rise of Ketanji Brown Jackson, from a young girl growing up in Florida to the first Black woman to be confirmed to the United States Supr...
Presents six stories featuring Cรฉcile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, and Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has jus...
What do you know about the Civil War? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily l...
"Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang...
Strong Inside and Out
Read about Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break into the modern major leagues. Includes photos, an interview with an expert and key da...
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play baseball in the modern major leagues. That may not seem like a big deal today -- but in 1947 it...
Relates an incident from the childhood of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., when his best friend's father said they could no longer play to...
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Read Melody's Diary to discover her story set in Detroit during the Civil Rights Movement. This title is a part of American Girl's exciting new series...
Two stories follow Addy's escape from slavery, while a third book allows the reader to join Addy in Philadelphia during the Civil War....
Cecile gets close to Perrine and there is a fund raiser to help the orphans so she helps....
The True Story of Rosa Parks
The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her...
My Journey with Melody
Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options in this multiple-ending story....
Meet John Lewis. When John Lewis was a teenager, he asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown. From then ...
In three stories featuring nine-year-old Melody, who lives in Detroit in 1964, she pursues her singing dreams and learns that leadership can be diffic...
Provides a close look at the inside of a ship and what makes it work...
Shaina learns about gardening when her family helps her plant and care for her own garden of tomato plants....
An affluent black family fights against illness and death when a terrible outbreak of yellow fever strikes New Orleans in the summer of 1853....
"In 1933, people from all over the country came together calling for equal rights for African Americans. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ...
Encouraged by her friend Marie-Grace, Cecile finds a way to help her beloved city, New Orleans, in the aftermath of the 1853 yellow fever epidemic....