Kekla Magoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens. [This book] puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie's choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River.
Bad things happen in the heat, they say.
Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moment's notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago summer of 1968. She is a Black Panther—or at least she wants to be one. Maxie believes in the movement. She wants to belong. She wants...
Bad things happen in the heat, they say.
Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moment's notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago summer of 1968. She is a Black Panther—or at least she wants to be one. Maxie believes in the movement. She wants to belong. She wants...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds!
In this chapter book biography by NAACP Image Award-winning author and Coretta Scott King Honor recipient Kekla Magoon, readers learn about the amazing life of Ruby Bridges—and how she persisted.
As a first grader,...
In this chapter book biography by NAACP Image Award-winning author and Coretta Scott King Honor recipient Kekla Magoon, readers learn about the amazing life of Ruby Bridges—and how she persisted.
As a first grader,...
5) Light it up
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
Author
Language
English
Description
On September 4, 1957, nine African American teenagers made their way toward Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They didn't make it very far. Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard blocked most of them at the edge of campus. The three students who did make it onto campus faced an angry mob. White citizens spit at them and shouted ugly racial slurs. No black students entered Central that day. And if the angry mob had its way, black...
Author
Language
English
Description
On his record My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, hip-hop superstar Kanye West "unleashes an array of flavors-old school hip-hop, progressive rock, R&B, classical music-and mixes and matches them," says USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper. The paper describes Kanye's songs as "sonic jewels." Since releasing his first album, The College Dropout, in 2004, Kanye has taken the hip-hop world by storm. He raps, he sings, and he dances, dazzling audiences...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brilliant picture book biography about Thurgood Marshall, who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and served as the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, from Coretta Scott King Honor winners Kekla Magoon and Laura Freeman.
Growing up in Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall could see that things weren't fair. The laws said that Black and white people couldn't use the same schools, parks, or water fountains.
When Thurgood had to read...
10) Ruby Bridges
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
50 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
11) Reign of outlaws
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley has seventy-two hours to decide between sacrificing herself to save her parents and friends, or continuing to lead the rebellion to rid Nott City from Ignomus Crown once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs in this futuristic retelling of Robin Hood.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Robyn Loxley plans to sieze the opportunity to rescue her parents from the governor's mansion by competing in the Iron Teen contest, although success could bring unwanted attention from Crown.
17) Infinity riders
Author
Series
Voyagers volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
186 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A spaceship piloted by children travels to Planet Infinity where the youngsters must navigate underground tunnels in search of the fourth element of a power source needed to save Earth.
Author
Series
Blue stars volume mission 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
171 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
19) Simone Biles
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This exciting chapter book biography introduces readers to Simone Biles, the most decorated US gymnast of all time, who uses her fame to speak up on important issues and to help others.
20) X: a novel
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
348 pages, 30 unnumbered pages : portrait, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies -- after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer. But Malcolm's efforts to...