Posts Tagged ‘Black History Month’
Book Review | The Legend of Freedom Hill
by Linda Jacobs Altman
Score: 3
Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu
© 2000, Lee & Low Books.
During the Gold Rush of the 1850’s, Rosabel and Sophie are best friends because they are both outsiders. Rosabel is African American and Sophie is Jewish. A PJ Library book.
Grade Level: K- 3rd
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Book Review | Stealing Home.
by Ellen Schwartz
Score: 3.5
© 2006, Tundra Books.
It is 1947, Joey Sexton’s white, Jewish mother has died and he finds out that his black father is also dead. The only family that will take him are his maternal grandfather and aunt who live together in Brooklyn.
As Joey struggles to make friends with the other children in the neighborhood, his [...]
Book Review | As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom
by Richard Michelson
Score: 5
Illustrated by Raul Colón.
© 2008 – Knopf Books for Young Readers.
Winner of the 2008 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers. This is an outstanding book about how Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel grew up on different continents at different times yet with similar experiences, and how those experiences caused their lives [...]
