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Angel to Angel
The author-poet celebrates mothers in this collection of poems illustrated by archival photographs of African American families.
Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Black Star, Bright Dawn
Bright Dawn, a teenaged Eskimo girl, takes her father's place in the grueling Iditarod, the 1000-mile dogsled race through the cold wilds of Alaska. In the process, she learns about herself, her family, and her culture.
Blues Singers, The
The author tells his granddaughter about the origin of blues in America through 10 stories of great blues musicians he and his father had known. The interesting illustrations are done in a thick line, solid color style. A bibliography and a recording li
Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Calling the Doves
The author joyously recounts the songs, the food, and the love of his parents of his boyhood in a migrant Mexican family in rhythmic, lyrical language with a bilingual format. The colorful illustrations recall both Diego Rivera and Marc Chagall in their
Childtimes
Three African American women, grandmother, mother, and daughter, reminisce about their childhoods.
Author: Greenfield, Eloise & Little, Lessive Jones |
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Circle Unbroken
A young girl learns the tradition of making sweet grass baskets.
Author: Raven, Margot |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South
This book is a partnership between African American artist, Michele Woods, who returned to the South and painted her family history, and author Toyomi Igus, who gave words to Woods's paintings.
Author: Igus, Toyomi |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Holes
This story-within-a-story tells of Stanley Yelnats (and his distant relatives, one of whom "cursed" the family), mistakenly sent to a juvenile corrections camp in Texas. At the corrections camp, Stanley finds a real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of
I Saw Your Face
Sketches from Tom Feelings's sketch book are used to frame a simple yet powerful poem about the "face game" played by the author with his mother that celebrates African-American heritage.
Author: Dawes, Kwame |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - writing
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Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II
This amazing book takes the reader inside the internment camps and shows the fortitude of the people who survived and thrived despite the hardships imposed on them. An amazing book for readers of all ages. Beautiful photos add to the text.
Author: Sandler, Martin W. |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Jack
This is a biography of JFK, from birth through HS graduation. A bit of his parents' backgrounds is also provided. Primary documents, letters and school reports, are sprinkled throughout the text.
Author: Cooper, Ilene |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Life Is So Good
This is the autobiography of George Dawson, grandson of slaves, who began to learn to read at age 98. Like Having Our Say, this book offers an African American perspective to 100 years of history. Moreover, Dawson's character and philosophy for l
Author: Dawson, George & Glaubman, Richard |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - writing | social studies
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Looks Like Daylight:Voices of Indigenous Kids
For two years writer and activist Deborah Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada, interviewing Indigenous young people. The result is a collection of frank and often surporising interviews with kids aged 9 to 19, as they talk about their dail
Author: Ellis, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - writing | social studies | language arts - reading
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My Own True Name
This partially bilingual collection of uniformly thoughtful and accessible poems includes many verse forms.
Persepolis 2
This graphic novel sequel to Persepolis, depicts the author's rebellious adolescence and early adulthood among dissident outsider friends in Vienna and her voluntary return to her family in fundamentalist Tehran. Readers should be cautioned about referen
Author: Satrapi, Marjane |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Princess Ka'iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People
This is a fascinating biography of Ka'iulani, Crown Princess of Hawaii. The history of Hawaii is also chronicled, as is a bit about life in the US and Europe in the late 19th century. Authentic photographs and political cartoons, a bibliography, and index
Author: Linnea, Sharon |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Seven Brave Women
A young girl recounts her family history passed down to her through stories and family artifacts of remarkable, ordinary women. Each of the seven women who lived at the time of a war "made history by not fighting in wars."
Sioux, The
This book is part of the "Lifeway Series," which also includes titles called The Cherokee, The Iroquois, and The Navajo. This title examines the origins, history, culture, beliefs, and language of the Native American tribe the S
Author: Bial, Raymond |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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This Jazzman
Using vibrant colors, typeface, and onomatopoetic words, the author and illustrator introduce readers to types of jazz musicians. Back pages provide biographical information on jazz greats.
Author: Ehrhardt, Karen |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Voices from the Fields
Photographs, poems, and interviews capture glimpses of life for today's migrant children.
Author: Atkin, S. Beth |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Walking the Choctaw Road
A collection of twelve stories from the Mississippi and Oklahoma branches of the Choctaw People, including traditional lore arising from beliefs and myths, historical tales pased down through generations, and personal stories of contemporary life.
Author: Tingle, Tim |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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