Miles' Song
Miles' Song

Author: Alice McGill

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780439280709

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It is 1851. Miles is a house slave on the Tilery Plantation, but when he is caught looking at an open book, he is sent to the breaking ground where he learns what it really means to be a slave. 12-year-old Miles is allowed to work in the great house on the Tillery Plantation, where he is training to be a house servant, rather than labor in the fields. But after he is caught looking at an open book while dusting the library, Miles is banished from the mansion and sent to the breaking ground. There, he learns what it truly means to feel like a slave. But it is also at the breaking ground that he meets Elijah, an older slave who teaches Miles to read and tells him of the land of freedom up north. Armed with his new knowledge, Miles tells himself that he does not feel like a slave and he no longer believes working in the great house is a privlege.

Way Up and Over Everything
Way Up and Over Everything

Author: Alice McGill

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780618387960

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In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

Molly Bannaky
Molly Bannaky

Author: Alice McGill

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395722879

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Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.

My Brother Martin
My Brother Martin

Author: Christine King Farris

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0689843879

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Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement. Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down. Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history.

Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to You!

Author: Margot Theis Raven

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1627531351

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To each of us who has enjoyed a piece of birthday cake, the strains of "Happy Birthday to You" are as familiar to our ears as our own names. Yet how many people know the origin of the tune and its place in American history? In 1889 Patty and Mildred Hill, two Kentucky sisters, wrote the words and composed the melody of "Good Morning to All" for their kindergarten students. Initially written as a simple greeting and welcome, they later changed the words and birthday celebrations were forever altered. But it wasn't until 1935 that the sisters' song was fully copyrighted and their names duly credited. Margot Theis Raven, the author of such inspiring children's books as Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot and Let Them Play, relates the story behind one of the most famous and oft-sung songs in the world.Margot Theis Raven's award-winning books are often set against powerful historical backdrops such as America's civil rights period. Her books for Sleeping Bear Press include America's White Table and Let Them Play, which was named a 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. Chris Soentpiet's numerous books include My Brother Martin and Peacebound Trains and reflect his interest in people, history, and culture. He has won several prestigious awards such as the International Reading Association Children's Book of the Year. Chris lives in Flushing, New York.

Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin

Author: Marguerite Henry

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1481403966

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Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry’s beloved novel about a boy who would do anything to paint is now available in a collectible hardcover gift edition. Benjamin West was born with an extraordinary gift—the gift of creating paintings of people, animals, and landscapes so true to life they “took one’s breath away.” But Benjamin is part of a deeply religious Quaker family, and Quaker beliefs forbid the creation of images. Because Benjamin’s family didn’t approve of his art, he had to make his own painting supplies. The local Native Americans taught him how to mix paints from earth, clay, and plants. And his cat, Grimalkin, sacrificed hair from his tail for Ben’s brushes. This classic story from Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry features the original text and illustrations in a gorgeous collectible hardcover edition.

The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published:

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780547348896

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Upon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. Now The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators assembles the best of that volume in one handy, affordable reference, geared specifically to parents, educators, and students. This new volume introduces readers to the wealth of children’s literature by focusing on the essentials — the best books for children, the ones that inform, impress, and, most important, excite young readers. Updated to include newcomers such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket and to cover the very latest on publishing and educational trends, this edition features more than 475 entries on the best-loved children’s authors and illustrators, numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children’s literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children.

Black History in the Pages of Children's Literature
Black History in the Pages of Children's Literature

Author: Rose Casement

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780810858435

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This book presents Black history contextualized in chapters that provide both an introduction to historical periods and an annotated bibliography of outstanding children's literature that can be used to introduce and teach the history of each period.

Strategies that Work
Strategies that Work

Author: Stephanie Harvey

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 157110481X

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Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.

Teaching for Deep Comprehension
Teaching for Deep Comprehension

Author: Linda J. Dorn

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1571104038

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Accompanying DVD includes a first-grade reading workshop (shared reading, author studies, share time), an adult book discussion, a fourth-grade reading workshop (mini-lesson and literature discussion groups), and more.