Lesa Cline-Ransome
Author
Formats
Description
You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker, or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax - a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how Adolphe's once reviled instrument was transported across Europe and Mexico to New Orleans. Follow the saxophone's...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Appears on list
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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"--
10) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 22 cm
Appears on list
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
40 pages
Description
A young girl helps her father, the captain of a whale boat, on a whale-watching trip and relates how her ancestors hunted whales in the same waters. Includes information on the history of whaling, whale-watching, and the conservation movement to ensure the safety of whales.
12) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
296 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.
13) For Lamb
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Appears on these lists
Description
Recounts the life of the groundbreaking journalist, who combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on such events as American domestic politics, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.
15) Claudette Colvin
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
51 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Appears on list
Description
"A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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
Description
For Helen Keller, "w-a-t-e-r" was a cool, slippery splash. "S-u-n" was the warm afternoon glow coating her skin. "L-i-l-y" was a sweet-smelling petal, soft and delicate to her touch. After an illness left her blind and deaf, Helen relied on her senses of touch and smell to help compensate for her loss. And then she met her teacher, Annie Sullivan, who showed her a new way to give meaning to the world around her. But most of all, Annie gave Helen a...
19) Satchel Paige
Author
Description
Leroy "Satchel" Paige was the first African American to pitch in a Major League World Series, and the first Negro Leaguer to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fans of all ages can relive the dream as they hear about Satch's talents, feisty personality, popularity, and ultimate success in this rhythmic and vivid biography of one of baseball's most dazzling pitchers.
Author
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. By...