title: Percy Lavon Julian: Pioneering Chemist Signature Lives Series author: Darlene R. Stille date: Compass Point Books; 2009 non-fiction reading level: 7.0 preview the book There is a very limited range of biographies of people of color that are available for middle and high school readers, so I was glad to find Percy Lavon: Pioneering… Read More review: Percy Lavon Julian Pioneering Chemist
title: They called themselves the K.K.K.: The birth of an American terrorist group author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti date: Houghton Mifflin, 2010 non-fiction I’d been hearing about They called themselves the K.K.K. for quite some time now and from what I’d heard, I expected it to deliver a good read. And that it did! In the… Read More book review: They called themselves the KKK
title: Panther Baby author: Jamal Joseph date: Algonquin Books; February, 2012 non-fiction/autobiography reading level: 6.0 Honestly, I didn’t want to read Panther Baby when Doret first suggested it. But since I trust her judgment of books, I read the book and I’m so glad I did! I’ve wanted to put Panther Baby into the hands of… Read More review: Panther Baby A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention
title: Ain’t nothing but a man: my quest to find the real John Henry author: Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson date: National Geographic Books for Children, 2008 MG nonfiction In Ain’t nothing but a man, Scott Reynolds walks us through his research to find out whether John Henry was a real man. His conversational… Read More book review: Ain’t nothing but a man
title: White and Black: The confrontation between Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor author: Larry Dane Brimner date: Calkins Creek; December 2011 non-fiction White and Black takes us back to the 1950s and 60s when two strong leaders, Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor, confronted each other almost daily over the issue of… Read More book review: Black and White: The confrontation between Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor
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