Kids Book Index
Willie Mae Brown
As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family’s home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My LifeJerry PinkneySince childhood, it was how he made sense of the world—how he coped with the stress of being a sensitive child growing up in crowded spaces, struggling with a learning disability, in a time when the segregation of Black Americans was the norm.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
I Am KaviThushanthi PonweeraCaught between two worlds—a poverty-stricken village and a fancy big-city school—a young Sri Lankan girl must decide who she really is and where she really belongs.1998, Colombo.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah EquianoHimself by Monica Edinger, Lesley Younge“Permit me to lay at your feetthe following genuineNarrative . . .”Olaudah Equiano was a writer and abolitionist whose autobiography, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, captured the attention of British readers at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details