Features
Black History Month
For more reviews related to this topic please look at the following feature sections:
Biographical Features: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
Historical Features: The Civil Rights Movement
From Slave to Soldier: Based on a true civil war story
Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by Brian Floca
Non-Fiction and Fiction
Ages 6 to 8
Simon and Schuster, 2005, 0-689-83966-9
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story
Ellen Levine
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 4 to 8
Scholastic, 2007, 0-439-77733-X
Satchel Paige Don’t look Back
David A. Adler
Illustrated by Terry Widener
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Harcourt, 2007, 0-15-205585-1
The Tuskegee Airmen
Philip Brooks
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 10
Compass Point Books, 2005, 0-7565-0683-2
Dizzy
Jonah Winter
Illustrated by Sean Qualls
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 4 to 8
Scholastic, 2006, 0-439-50737-5
The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint George
High Brewster
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 8 to 12
Abrams, 2006, 0-8109-5720-5
The Brave Escape of Ellen and William Craft
Donald B. Lemke
Illustrated by Phil Miller, Tod Smith, and Charles Barnett III
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 8 to 10
Capstone Press, 2006, 0-7368-4973-4
If you lived when there was slavery in America
Anne Kamma
Illustrated by Pamela Johnson
Non-Fiction Picture book (Series)
Ages 7 to 10
Scholastic, 2004, 0-439-56076-8
If you traveled on the Underground Railroad
Ellen Levine
Illustrated by Larry Johnson
Non-Fiction Picture Book (Series)
Ages 7 to 10
Scholastic, 1993, 0-590-45156-1
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Fiction and Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 7 to 10
Scholastic, 2006, 0-439-49522-9
The Escape of Oney judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom
Emily Arnold McCully
Fiction and Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 7 to 10
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 0-374-3225-2
Frederick Douglass: Young Defender of Human Rights
Elisabeth P.Myers
Illustrated by Cathy Morrison
Non Fiction (Series)
Patria Press, 2007, 978-1-882859-57-3
The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Non-Fiction (Series)
Ages 10 to 12
Compass Point Books, 2006, 0-7565-2001-8
Wind Flyers
Angela Johnson
Illustrated by Loren Long
Fiction and Non-Fiction picture Book
Ages 5 to 9
Simon and Schuster, 2007, 978-0-689-84879-7
Friend on Freedom River
Gloria Whelan
Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
Picture Book (Series)
Ages 7 to 10
Sleeping Bear Press, 2004, 1-58536-222-0
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