Earl B. Lewis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For thousands of years, quartz fragments have traveled down the Delaware River (once called the Wehittck by the Lenape Indians), washing ashore near a place settled by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey, where they are gathered as treasures and known as Cape May Diamonds.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
5) Trouper
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of Sarah Roberts and her 1847 case petitioning that she be allowed to attend a white school, explaining how her heroic efforts established key precedents and paved the way for civil rights advancements.