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A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers
Deborah Hopkinson (Illus. Raúl Colón)
Goin’ Someplace Special
Patricia C. McKissack (Illus. Jerry Pinkney)
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Andrea Davis Pinkney (Illus. Brian Pinkney)
This Author’s Note speaks about a daring escape by an enslaved man who commandeered a Confederate ship to gain freedom. What book could it be?
Freedom on the Sea
The Author’s Note discusses the power of using art to speak out against injustice and create positive change. What book could this be?
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Laban Carrick Hill (Illus. Bryan Collier)
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Gavin Curtis (Illus. E.B. Lewis)
Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life
Jerdine Nolen (Illus. Kadir Nelson)
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
Anne Rockwell (Illus. by Floyd Cooper)
The Author’s Note discusses how love and memory lift spirits and connect us to those who have left us. Which story could this be?
Wind Flyers
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
Carole Boston Weatherford (Illus. Elizabeth Zunon)
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Andrea Davis Pinkney (Illus. Brian Pinkney)
Beautiful Blackbird
Ashley Bryan
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes
Traci N. Todd (Illus. Shannon Wright)
Sweet Smell of Roses
Angela Johnson (Illus. Eric Velasquez)
Wind Flyers
Angela Johnson (Illus. Loren Long)
The Other Side
Jacqueline Woodson (Illus. E.B. Lewis)
Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom
Michael Boulware Moore (Illus. Bryan Collier)
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
Robert D. San Souci (Illus. Brian Pinkney)
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Carole Boston Weatherford (Illus. Eric Velasquez)
The Author’s Note honors a woman who used her art to inspire change and refused to compromise her values in the face of adversity. Which book might this be?
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
The note discusses how an enslaved man used his intelligence and bravery to outwit the British during the Revolutionary War. What story could this describe?
A Spy Called James
Show Way
Jacqueline Woodson (Illus. Hudson Talbott)
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Breanna J. McDaniel (Illus. April Harrison)
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put American on the Moon
Suzanne Slade (Illus. Veronica Miller Jamison)