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What Is Juneteenth?

Written by Kirsti Jewel

On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union...

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The American Civil War (War Histories)

Written by Kate Moening

Though united today, America has not always stood together. This hi-lo title looks at the war that...

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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln

Written by Margarita Engle and Illustrated by Rafael Lopez
As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano...
Pre-K - 3rd
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Two Miserable Presidents Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about the Civil War

Written by Steve Sheinkin and Illustrated by Tim Robinson
That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over...
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Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Written by Anne F. Rockwell and Illustrated by Colin Bootman
What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans...
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Pink and Say

Written and Illustrated by Patricia Polacco
Pink, an African-American Yankee soldier, rescues Say, a white Yankee soldier, after he was wounded...
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Hope's Gift

Written by Kelly Starling Lyons and Illustrated by Don Tate
Written to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation, this is the story of a little girl, her family...
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