Jacqueline Woodson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Historical Fiction for Middle Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Fifth Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Sixth Graders
Kids - Historical Fiction for Middle Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Fifth Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Sixth Graders
Formats
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 980L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
115 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Ready Reference Treatise: Feathers Copyright Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Plot Overview Chapter Three: Major Characters Chapter Four: Complete Summary Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Chapter Five: Critical Analysis.--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (7 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The story of one family's journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family's history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for everything from jump rope games to tying suitcases onto a car for the big move north to New York City, and even for a family reunion where that first little girl is now...
7) Show Way
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Quilt making has been passed down through eight generations of Soonie’s family. Messages were carefully stitched into each quilt, called a Show Way, mapping the family’s journey from slavery to the present day.