Pat McKissack
Author
Series
The clone codes volume V. 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
4) The visitors
Author
Series
Clone codes volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The World Federation of Nations issues a bounty for the capture of fugitives Houston Ye, a cyborg, and Leanna Deberry, a clone; meanwhile, the world's largest cloning company is operating a evil system where only authorized officials and clones are allowed inside.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Here's a songbook, a storybook, a poetry collection, and much more, all rolled into one. Find a partner for hand claps such as Eenie, Meenie, Sassafreeny, or form a circle for games like Little Sally Walker. Gather as a family to sing well-loved songs like Amazing Grace and Oh, Freedom, or to read aloud the poetry of such African American luminaries as Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. And snuggle down to enjoy classic...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American history and the mystery of that eerie half-hour before nightfall--the dark thirty. "The atmosphere of each selection is skillfully developed and sustained to...
Author
Series
Clone codes volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Houston, a cyborg since the age of seven, and a fugitive living on the Moon, joins with other cyborgs all over the world in non-violent protest marches to challenge the Cyborg Act 2130 and hopefully secure increased civil liberties.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, seven, whose family lost everything in a fire.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After barn mice make a collar with a bell to warn them when Marmalade the cat is approaching, Smart Mouse must devise a way to safely put the collar on her in this retelling of a Aesop fable.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
Ã1986
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
16) Ma Dear's aprons
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
Ã1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young David Earl always knows what day of the week it is, because his mother, Ma Dear, has a different apron for every day except Sunday.