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Yossel’s Journey

By Johnson Yazzie (illus.) - By Kathryn Lasky - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Yossel’s Journey by Kathryn Lasky is a beautifully illustrated historical fiction book for children aged 5-9 years. It is a story about ...Read Review

Under the Freedom Tree

By Susan VanHecke - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1861, three men escaped slavery by rowing across a body of water and being received and protected by the Northern army. Soon more ...Read Review

Follow Chester!: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History

By Gloria Respress-Churchwell - Published 2019

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This picture book tells the story of Dr. Chester “Chet” Pierce. As a child, he lacked confidence, even though he saved his brother ...Read Review

Night Train, Night Train

By Robert Burleigh - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

A young boy takes the Dreyfus Hudson locomotive, the night train, in the 1930s or 40s. Sometime during the night the boy falls ...Read Review

Struttin’ with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin Armstrong Becomes the First Lady of Jazz

By Patricia Hruby Powell - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Lil Hardin is born with music in her fingers and a beat in her step. Coming of age in Memphis at the dawn ...Read Review

Currents

By Jane Petrlik Smolik - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The delightful power of imagination compels three young girls to send a very special message and object in a sealed bottle in the ...Read Review

Prisoner 88

By Leah Pileggi - Published 2013

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

Leah Pileggi’s Prisoner 88 is a fictional account of the real-life imprisonment of ten-year-old Jake Oliver Evans in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary in 1885. ...Read Review