Friday, December 8, 2006

Books on World Cultures - Black/African American - 6-8 Grades

Grades 6-8 (Under Construction)

A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson by David A. Adler






All the Colors of the Race by Arnold Adoff








Black Is Brown Is Tan by Arnold Adoff







Malcolm X by Arnold Adoff








Black Out Loud by Arnold Adoff, Editor

North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Katherine Ayers










Zack by William Bell

The Underground Railroad by Raymond Bial







Charlie Pippin by Candy Dawson Boyd









Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges







I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry by Catherine Clinton






Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen








Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe









Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature by Barbara K. Curry







Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis








The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis









First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson by Derek T. Dingle






The Window by Michael Dorris








Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper








Francie by Karen English









Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings




The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake










Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in their Lives by Sharon Flake







The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine by Dennis Fradin

The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine by Judith Bloom Fradin

Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman






Darby by Jonathan Scott Fuqua












Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories by Jan Greenberg







Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield
Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
Promises to the Dead by Mary Downing Hahn
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference by Joyce Hansen
Ludie's Song by Dirlie Herlihy
Witness by Karen Hesse
The African American Family Album by Dorothy Hoobler
The African American Family Album by Thomas Hoobler
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
A Girl Called Boy by Belinda Hurmence
I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus
Heaven by Angela Johnson
The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson
Over Jordan by Norma Johnston
Frederick Douglass: Portrait of a Freedom Fighter by Sheila Keenan
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World by Julius Lester
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester
Long Journey Home by Julius Lester
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
Freedom Like Sunlight: Praisesongs for Black Americans by J. Patrick Lewis
Sojourner Truth: Slave, Abolitionist, Fighter for Women's Rights by Aletha J. Lindstrom
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Where You Belong by Mary Ann McGuigan
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Fredrick McKissack
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Fredrick McKissack
Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Fredrick McKissack
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States by Pat McKissack
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. McKissack
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack
Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Patricia C. McKissack
Love to Langston by Tony Medina
White Lilacs by Carolyn Meyer
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller
The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shirley P. Moses
Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers
Blues Journey by Walter Dean Myers
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
The Longest Ride by Denise Lewis Patrick
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
No More!: Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance by Doreen Rappaport
Across the Lines by Carolyn Reeder
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell
Langston Hughes: Poet of the Harlem Renaissance by Jack Rummel
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Munoz Ryan
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley
Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom by Charles A. Taylor
The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation by Velma Maia Thomas
Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage
Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun by Arvella Whitmore
Follow the Leader by Vicki Winslow
The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Arthur Ashe: Breaking the Color Barrier in Tennis by David Wright
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

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