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(0)Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller
"You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You do you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?"
Lewis Michaux was born to do things his own way. When a white banker told him to sell fried chicken, not books, because "Negroes don't read," Lewis took five books and one hundred dollars and built a bookstore. It soon became the intellectual center
...Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"African American George Fletcher loved horses from an early age. When he unfairly lost the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up to a white man, the outraged audience declared him "people's champion"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.
7) Possibles
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, a twelve-year-old girl takes a summer job instead of going to camp with a friend as planned.
8) Juneteenth
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn about how freedom came to the slaves in June 1865.
