Kadir Nelson
2) Baby Bear
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Baby Bear tries to find his way home through the forest, he asks many different woodland creatures for help and finds that much of their advice is more comforting than helpful.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey to freedom as she, leaving her family behind, escaped from slavery and led many others to freedom.
10) I have a dream
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the text of the famous speech given on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. by Martin Luther King, Jr., complemented by paintings illustrating the ideals the civil rights leader described.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Publisher
TOON Graphics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""Black Heroes of the Wild West" celebrates the extraordinary true tales of three black historical figures in the Old West: Mary "Stagecoach" Fields, a cardplaying coach driver; Bass Reeves, the first black Deputy S Marshall west of the Mississippi; and Bob Lemmons, a cowboy famous for his ability to tame mustangs"--