James Ransome
1) My teacher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A student wonders why her teacher has chosen to teach in her school for so long, and highlights all the special things her teacher does for her class.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Here is the remarkable true story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, as told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An iconic figure of the abolitionist and women's rights movements, Sojourner Truth famously spoke out for equal rights roughly one hundred years before the civil rights movement. My Name Is Truth includes a detailed historical note,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of the sisters and tennis stars, including their special relationship as sisters and best friends, their constant training as children, and their incredible success in professional tennis.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their Manhattan home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An eight-year-old girl accompanies her grandmother on a singing tour of the segregated South, both of them knowing that Grandmama's songs have the power to bring people together.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"-- Provided by publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jazz icon Sonny Rollins found an inspired spot to practice his saxophone when his neighbors complained"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else, it was rich in superb music. Young Louis took it all in, especially the cornet blowing of Joe "King" Oliver. But after a run in with the police, 11-year-old Louis was sent away to the Colored Waif s Home for Boys where he became a disciplined musician in the school s revered marching band....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
89 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the National Basketball Association from its origins through the major events and players who made basketball what it is today"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This clever and informative picture book introduces young readers to the world of good and bad bacteria--germs!"-- Provided by publisher.
20) Freedom's school
Author
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.