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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: “My father’s dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition of his world-changing "I Have a Dream" speech brings his inspiring message of freedom, equality, and peace to the youngest among us—those who will one day carry his dream forward for everyone.”
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln...
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln...
2) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the courageous involvement of many young people who marched, protested, were arrested, and risked their lives to end racial discrimination in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Many people have wondered why I've been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I've never held political office. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I'm not even a lawyer. All I can say to that is 'Guilty as charged.' It's true that I've never voted for a budget America could not afford. I've never raised anyone's taxes. And I've never promised a lobbyist anything in exchange for a donation. Luckily, none of that really...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Four-time #1 bestselling author and veteran television news journalist Bill O'Reilly has more than 5 million copies of his books in print to date! His first book for young fans, The O'Reilly Factor for Kids, held the honorable distinction of being the #1 bestselling nonfiction title for kids in 2005 according to Nielsen's The Book Standard.Back again with a dialogue on rights that will have everyone talking, O'Reilly and his coauthor Charles Flowers...
10) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
12) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Coretta Scott King illustrator award book : 2006.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Traces the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
19) Summer of '69
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In the nineteen fifties and early sixties, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull' Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while Commissioner Connor fought for the status quo. Relying on court documents, police and FBI reports, newspapers, interviews, and photographs,...
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