Lizan Mitchell
1) Tiptop cat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
A cat finds the courage to climb again after a frightening fall from his owner's apartment balcony.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. 1 book (53 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm)
Language
English
Description
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook : color illustrations ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty--and fun--in their routine and the world around them. This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
53 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
Author
Pub. Date
p2014
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
10) Tiptop cat
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A cat finds the courage to climb again after a frightening fall from his owner's apartment balcony.
Author
Series
Sister Betty volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
vii, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring, devilishly funny tale of hope, secrets-and hard-knock faith that can make the most impossible situations right...
For Sister Betty, the marriage proposal from trustee Freddie Noel is a once-in-a-lifetime surprise blessing. Unfortunately, she knows the chances of having a peaceful ceremony in their beloved Crossing Over Sanctuary Church are slim to none. But she's armed with enough sense and scripture to keep contentious church busybodies...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
411 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Appearances mean everything to Delilah Dupree Jewel. So after hearing of her daughter-in-law's sudden death, Delilah decides that coming to the rescue of her long estranged son Jesse and her granddaughter Tamara would be a good look ... though Lord knows she'll have to dig hard to find her maternal instincts. But Delilah quickly discovers that Jesse wants nothing to do with her and Tamara isn't interested in her career advice.
13) Joplin's ghost
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning writer of The Good House, The Living Blood, and more, Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead music legend. When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R & B singer. She's living the life young artists envy...
14) Thunder Rose
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 910L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
610 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A bold, deeply moving, and highly imaginative debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms.
In his vivid, original, and heartrending account of the thirty-seven-year relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one which began in Paris in 1789 and ended with Jefferson's death in 1826,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 284 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up to Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the "Little Rock Nine" would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change America. Descended from a line of proud black landowners and businessmen, Carlotta was...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bishop T.K. Wilson, the popular pastor of the largest African-American church in Queens, New York, decides to run for borough president, but his platform, built on family values, is threatened when his troubled family life is revealed.