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(0)Marilyn Nelson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
George Washington Carver was determind to help the people he loved. Born enslaved in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-Black-staffed Tuskagee Institute, Carver found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to poverty among landless Black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights...
Author
Publisher
Wordsong
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
The story of a slave from Africa who was the first man to document his capture and life as an American slave details how he worked through a lifetime of slavery to buy not only his own freedom, but also that of his wife and children.
5) American ace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--
Augusta Savage was arguable the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, she flourished during the Harlem Renaissance and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists. Nelson's poems are paired with...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a Black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house.
