Download or read book Molly Bannaky written by Alice McGill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Download or read book Miles Song written by Alice McGill and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1851. Miles is a house slave on the Tilery Plantation, but when he is caught looking at an open book, he is sent to the breaking ground where he learns what it really means to be a slave. 12-year-old Miles is allowed to work in the great house on the Tillery Plantation, where he is training to be a house servant, rather than labor in the fields. But after he is caught looking at an open book while dusting the library, Miles is banished from the mansion and sent to the breaking ground. There, he learns what it truly means to feel like a slave. But it is also at the breaking ground that he meets Elijah, an older slave who teaches Miles to read and tells him of the land of freedom up north. Armed with his new knowledge, Miles tells himself that he does not feel like a slave and he no longer believes working in the great house is a privlege.
Download or read book Way Up and Over Everything written by Alice McGill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.
Download or read book My Brother Martin written by Christine King Farris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement. Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down. Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history.
Download or read book Happy Birthday to You written by Margot Theis Raven and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To each of us who has enjoyed a piece of birthday cake, the strains of "Happy Birthday to You" are as familiar to our ears as our own names. Yet how many people know the origin of the tune and its place in American history? In 1889 Patty and Mildred Hill, two Kentucky sisters, wrote the words and composed the melody of "Good Morning to All" for their kindergarten students. Initially written as a simple greeting and welcome, they later changed the words and birthday celebrations were forever altered. But it wasn't until 1935 that the sisters' song was fully copyrighted and their names duly credited. Margot Theis Raven, the author of such inspiring children's books as Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot and Let Them Play, relates the story behind one of the most famous and oft-sung songs in the world.Margot Theis Raven's award-winning books are often set against powerful historical backdrops such as America's civil rights period. Her books for Sleeping Bear Press include America's White Table and Let Them Play, which was named a 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. Chris Soentpiet's numerous books include My Brother Martin and Peacebound Trains and reflect his interest in people, history, and culture. He has won several prestigious awards such as the International Reading Association Children's Book of the Year. Chris lives in Flushing, New York.
Download or read book Where the Buffaloes Begin written by Olaf Baker and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificently illustrated Caldecott Honor book recounts ten-year-old Little Wolf's determined quest to witness a legendary event from Plains Indian lore and his journey's unexpected effect on his tribe.
Download or read book Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin written by Marguerite Henry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry’s beloved novel about a boy who would do anything to paint is now available in a collectible hardcover gift edition. Benjamin West was born with an extraordinary gift—the gift of creating paintings of people, animals, and landscapes so true to life they “took one’s breath away.” But Benjamin is part of a deeply religious Quaker family, and Quaker beliefs forbid the creation of images. Because Benjamin’s family didn’t approve of his art, he had to make his own painting supplies. The local Native Americans taught him how to mix paints from earth, clay, and plants. And his cat, Grimalkin, sacrificed hair from his tail for Ben’s brushes. This classic story from Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry features the original text and illustrations in a gorgeous collectible hardcover edition.
Download or read book Dear Benjamin Banneker written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banneker, a free black mathematician and astronomer, takes a stand against slavery and writes Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson about his slave-owning policies.
Download or read book Around Town written by Chris K. Soentpiet and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joyful celebration of city life.
Download or read book The Life of Benjamin Banneker written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the great black American scientist and abolitionist who wrote an almanac and helped survey Washington.
Download or read book Silver Packages written by Cynthia Rylant and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Children s Books and Their Creators written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. Now The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators assembles the best of that volume in one handy, affordable reference, geared specifically to parents, educators, and students. This new volume introduces readers to the wealth of children’s literature by focusing on the essentials — the best books for children, the ones that inform, impress, and, most important, excite young readers. Updated to include newcomers such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket and to cover the very latest on publishing and educational trends, this edition features more than 475 entries on the best-loved children’s authors and illustrators, numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children’s literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children.
Download or read book Black History in the Pages of Children s Literature written by Rose Casement and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Black history contextualized in chapters that provide both an introduction to historical periods and an annotated bibliography of outstanding children's literature that can be used to introduce and teach the history of each period.
Download or read book Strategies that Work written by Stephanie Harvey and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.
Download or read book Gentle Reads written by Deanna J. McDaniel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recommends some 500 positive, heart-warming stories for young readers—stories of the human spirit and what it can accomplish; stories of loving families surviving crises in positive ways; historical tales full of quick-witted people (especially girls); fairy tales with strong women; true stories of survival; and more. These gentle and uplifting reads span every genre—from science fiction and fantasy, to mysteries, realistic fiction, biographies, and nonfiction. They are Accelerated Reader titles, Reading Counts titles, and Junior Library Guild selections. Primarily intended for grades 5 to 9, this is a list of reading suggestions for the young adult who wants a great read but does not want to be offended. Grades 5-9.
Download or read book Here We Go Round written by Alice McGill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, seven-year-old Roberta goes to her grandparents' North Carolina farm during the last month of her mother's pregnancy.
Download or read book Stages of Literacy Development written by Lin Carver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the theory behind integration of reading and writing throughout the stages of literacy development PK-12. It explores strategies and resources for supporting others as they provide literacy instruction. Teachers, literacy coaches, and district leaders will be a particular focus of the book as they need to be prepared to help their faculty integrate reading and writing in their institutions. Each chapter begins with a scenario or example from K-12 to flesh out the ideas presented in the chapter. Followed by an anticipation guide, the chapter delves into the learner characteristics, various genres, text characteristics, and major concepts encountered during each stage of development. This theoretical background is followed by five examples of stage appropriate genre illustrating strategies for integrating reading and writing instruction. The chapter concludes with activities readers could engage in to deepen their understanding of the concepts presented.
