James Ransome
1) Peepers
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While helping their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours in New England, Jim and Andy think the tourists are pretty silly; then one night the boys experience something which makes them change their minds.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A New York Harbor tugboat captain and his family take the tug up the Hudson River to pick up and tow the barge carrying the enormous Christmas tree that will be displayed at Rockefeller Center.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else, it was rich in superb music. Young Louis took it all in, especially the cornet blowing of Joe King Oliver. But after a run in with the police, 11-year-old Louis was sent away to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys where he became a disciplined musician in the school's revered marching band. By...