Kids Book Index
George Takei
George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States.George and his family were American in every way.
Wanjiku ˜ , Child of MineCiiku ˜ Ndu ˜ ng’u ˜ -CaseWanjiku ˜ shares her journey from her childhood in the Kenyan countryside and then in the streets of Nairobi, to her adolescence at boarding school, always remembering her cultural identity.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
BarracoonZora Neale HurstonIn 1975 anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, one of the last people living who had been brought from Africa and enslaved in the United States.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Sole Man: Jan Matzeliger’s Lasting InventionShana KellerIn 1873, at the age of 21, Jan Ernst Matzeliger immigrated to America, having left all that was familiar behind in South America.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details