Pat McKissack
41) Tippy Lemmey
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
59 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three children are terrorized by a dog named Tippy Lemmey, and consider him number one enemy until he does something totallly unexpected that changes the childrens' minds.
44) Who is who?
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even though Bobby and Johnny are twins, they often like opposite things. Includes a word list.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 142 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the civilizations of the Western Sudan which flourished from 700 to 1700 A.D., acquiring such vast wealth that they became centers of trade and culture for a continent.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 134 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a free Black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the experiences of African Americans.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
60) Run away home
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.