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Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad

8 best books like Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad (Monica Edinger): What Is the What, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America, Beethoven Lives Upstairs, Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream, For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story, Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street, Brick by Brick

What Is the What
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1932416641
From the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds...
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
AuthorEllen Levine
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
AuthorSharon Robinson
ISBN0439425921
A warm, intimate portrait of Jackie Robinson, America's sports icon, told from the unique perspective of a unique insider: his only daughter.

Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson...
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
AuthorBarbara Nichol
ISBN0531071189
A fictitious little boy writes his uncle letters, at first complaining about the eccentric composer that lives upstairs. But as time passes, the letters show that Christoph has had a change of heart. Kids will learn some interesting facts about Beethoven through this correspondence tale.

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Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
AuthorDeloris Jordan
ISBN0689834195
Michael Jordan.
The mere mention of the name conjures up visions of basketball played at its absolute best. But as a child, Michael almost gave up on his hoop dreams, all because he feared he'd never grow tall enough to play the game that would one day make him famous. That's when his mother and father...
For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story
AuthorRebecca Langston-George
One of the most important, meaningful and courageous stories of bravery and equality of our times.
Everyone should know who Malala is and now through this book, children of younger ages can learn and appreciate her tremendous, honorable and valuable work, and her incredible story.


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Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street
AuthorRoni Schotter
ISBN0531071367
Eva sits on the front stoop of her New York walk-up, a notebook perched on her lap and a cinnamon danish to fortify her at her side. Her teacher has instructed her to “write what you know”. That’s Eva’s problem: what she knows is that nothing ever happens on 90th Street. As she sits, though, neighbouring...
Brick by Brick
AuthorCharles R. Smith Jr.
ISBN0061920827
The president of a new country
needs a new home,
so many hands work
together as one.

Black hands,
white hands,
free hands,
slave hands.

In this powerful story of the building of the White House, Coretta Scott King Award winners Charles R. Smith Jr. and Floyd...
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