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1-21 of 21 results for : "award winners "

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Written by Javaka Steptoe

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a ground-breaking artist in New York City in the 1980s who challenged the...

1st - 5th

Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

Written by Donna Janell Bowmen

William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc...

3rd - 6th

Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service

Written by Annette Bay Pimentel

The true story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people for ten days in the...

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The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

Written by JohnRoy

John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mississippi, but all of that changed with...

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The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Written by Teri Kanefield

Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on...

3rd - 7th

Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America

Written by Tonya Bolden

Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the...

3rd - 7th

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican...

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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Written by Gretchen Woelfle

Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War,...

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Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Written by Susan Goldman Rubin

An award-winning author offers a riveting account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.

4th - 6th

Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

Written by Larry Dane Brimner

Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

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Now or Never!—54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Written by Ray Anthony Shepard

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War...

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Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty

Written by Michael Burgan

At the turn of the 20th century, photographer Edward S. Curtis devoted his life to learning all he...

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This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Written by Linda Barrett Osborne

American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a...

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Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Written by Tonya Bolden

Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln’s order went into effect, this...

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Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Written by Anne F. Rockwell

What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans?...

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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Written by Steve Sheinkin

An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve...

3rd - 9th

Brown Girl Dreaming

Written by Jacqueline Woodson

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid...

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Scholastic Classics: The Secret Garden

Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Spoiled, angry Mary Lennox is sent to live with her mysterious uncle after the death of her parents, and new friends help her begin her life again.

5th - 8th

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle: Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Written by Betty MacDonald

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has been wildly popular with children and adults for over 50 years. Her...

2nd - 3rd

Peter Pan

Written by J. M. Barrie

A mischievous boy who refuses to grow up whisks the Darling children off to Neverland in this canonical Edwardian fantasy.

5th - 8th

Freak the Mighty: Freak the Mighty

Written by Rodman Philbrick

Two boys—a slow learner too large for his age and a tiny, crippled genius—form an unforgettable team. "Memorable and luminous…different and very special."—SLJ. Mature content

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