Black History Month - Grades 4-5
OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 4-5 Cover Title Author Synopsis Lexile The Book Itch: Nelson, Vaunda Includes bibliographical references. 630 freedom, truth, & Micheaux Relates the story of the National Memorial Harlem’s greatest African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by bookstore Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there. One Crazy Summer Williams-Garcia, In the summer of 1968, after traveling 750 Rita from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. (Book 1) P.S. Bee Eleven Williams-Garcia, After spending the summer of 1968 with 770 Rita their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return home to Brooklyn with a new feeling of independence, but they discover their father has a new girlfriend, Uncle Darnell has come home from Vietnam a changed man, and Big Ma still expects Delphine to take care of everything. Feeling overwhelmed, Delphine writes to her mother, who reminds her to enjoy being eleven and not grow up too fast. (Book 2) Gone Crazy in Alabama Williams-Garcia, "Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to 740 Rita Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half-sister, Miss Trotter.
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