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The legendary Miss Lena Horne
By Carole Boston Weatherford, Elizabeth Zunon. 2017
Profiles the life of the actress and civil rights activist Lena Horne. Describes her early years living with her mother…
on the road and with her grandmother in Brooklyn. Highlights her artistic achievements as she paved the way as an African American actress and singer. For grades 2-4. 2017Frederick Douglass: the lion who wrote history
By Walter Dean Myers, Floyd Cooper. 2017
Biography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) explores the role of literacy and how it shaped his youth while he was a…
slave. Recounts his journey to freedom, and his life as a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, statesman, and a social reformer. For grades 2-4. 2017Preaching to the chickens: the story of young John Lewis
By Jabari Asim, E. B. Lewis. 2016
Portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis during his childhood. Young John tended the family farm's flock of chickens and…
regularly practiced his sermons on his new hen congregation. For grades K-3. 2016Miss Paul and the president: the creative campaign for women's right to vote
By Nancy Zhang, Dean Robbins. 2016
Recounts the story of suffragette Alice Paul (1885-1977) and her campaign to win women the right to vote. Highlights Alice's…
spunk and perseverance in her effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson and a stubborn country that it was time to change the Constitution. For grades K-3. 2016John Muir wrestles a waterfall
By Julie Danneberg, Jamie Hogan. 2015
Recounts the adventure of naturalist John Muir, when he explored a waterfall in Yosemite Valley, California, in April 1871. Interspersed…
with clips of his life as a self-taught scientist, writer, and founder of the Sierra Club. For grades 3-6. 2015Fifty cents and a dream: young Booker T. Washington
By Jabari Asim, Bryan Collier. 2012
Biography focuses on the younger years of African American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). Highlights his desire to learn to…
read when that was forbidden for slaves. Covers Washington's struggles and his ambition to study at the Hampton Institute--a place where black people could learn freely. For grades 2-4. 2012Librarian on the roof!: a true story
By Stephen Gilpin, M. G. King. 2010
Account of librarian RoseAleta Laurell, who climbed onto the roof of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas--and stayed…
there for a whole week! Details RoseAleta's determination to raise the twenty thousand dollars needed to give the library a fun and fully stocked children's section. For grades K-3. 2010Hanging off Jefferson's nose: growing up on Mount Rushmore
By Sally Wern Comport, Tina Nichols Coury. 2012
Sweet justice: Georgia gilmore and the montgomery bus boycott
By Mara Rockliff. 2022
An inspiring biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956. Georgia Gilmore…
was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested—pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a white man take her seat. To protest, the radio urged everyone to stay off city buses for one day: December 5, 1955. Throughout the boycott—at Holt Street Baptist Church meetings led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr.—and throughout the struggle for justice, Georgia served up her mouth-watering fried chicken, her spicy collard greens, and her sweet potato pie, eventually selling them to raise money to help the cause. Here is the vibrant true story of a hidden figure of the civil rights movement, told in flavorful language by a picture-book masterPop!: the invention of bubble gum
By Meghan McCarthy. 2010
Describes the efforts of Walter Diemer, a young accountant who worked at a candy and gum factory in 1920s Philadelphia,…
to discover a recipe for gum that could stretch to blow bubbles. Includes additional facts about gum. For grades K-3. 2010A feast of freedom: tasty tidbits from the City Tavern
By Walter Staib, Jennifer Fox, Fernando Juarez. 2010
The Founding Fathers!: those horse-ridin', fiddle-playin', book-readin', gun-totin' gentlemen who started America
By Jonah Winter, Barry Blitt. 2015
In this eye-opening look at our Founding Fathers that is full of fun facts galore, it seems that Ben Franklin,…
Thomas Jefferson, and their cohorts sometimes agreed on NOTHING... except the thing that mattered most: creating the finest constitution in world history, for the brand-new United States of America. For grades K-3. 2015A good night for freedom
By Barbara Olenyik Morrow, Leonard Jenkins. 2004
Hallie discovers two runaway slaves hiding in Levi Coffin's house and must choose between protecting herself and her family or…
helping the two strangers she's only just met. This book was inspired by the true account of two runaway slave sisters who were hidden by Underground Railroad leader Levi Coffin in his home in Indiana in the 1830s. For grades K-3A is for activist
By Innosanto Nagara. 2013
We the kids: the preamble to the Constitution of the United States
By David Catrow. 2002
We came to America
By Faith Ringgold. 2016
A timely and beautiful look at America's rich history of immigration and diversity, from Faith Ringgold, the Coretta Scott King…
and Caldecott Honor winning creator of Tar Beach. For grades K-3Missy the show-me mule: a story about Missouri (Super sandcastle. State stories)
By Bob Doucet, Nancy Tuminelly. 2011
Introduces young readers to the state of Missouri through stories about the state animal on a big adventure! The narrative…
incorporates state symbols, history, and geography. Factual sidebars, full-color photographs, and state-appropriate recipes support each title. For grades 2-4Rupert and the Liberty Bell: a story about Pennsylvania (Fact & Fable: State Stories Set 2)
By Bob Doucet, Katherine Hengel. 2010
Log cabin kitty
By Donna Rubin, Susan J. Halbower. 2012
"Log cabin kitty" is a tour of original log houses re-assembled and preserved at Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth,…
Texas, narrated by a fictional version of a real cat that once lived at the village. The site includes 14 historical structures including a working blacksmith shop and the Parker Cabin, where Cynthia Ann Parker spent time after she was returned from her Native American abductors. The narrative includes information about domestic pioneer life, recipes, and a glossary of terms. For grades K-3Up!: how families around the world carry their little ones
By Susan Hughes, Ashley Barron. 2017
Around the world, little ones are carried in many different ways: in slings, on shoulders, in backpacks, on hips, in…
baskets, and in loving arms. Up! depicts ten places around the world, from Afghanistan to northern Canada, Peru to West Africa. In each place, a mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling lovingly carries a baby. Award winner. For preschool-grade 2