Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
10 best books like Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Virginia Hamilton): Broken Song, A Boy No More, Other Bells for Us to Ring, Red Cap, Toning The Sweep, Weasel, Gentlehands, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, Words By Heart, When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0670059315 |
The year is 1897, and gifted violinist Reuven Bloom is fifteen years old. Life for the Jews in Russia is very hard. First Reuven's best friend is captured to serve in the Tsar's army, then his parents and older sister are murdered. Reuven's dreams of music must be set aside. Now he has only one goal: escape....
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| ISBN | 0439699460 |
"WHAT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO MY FATHER?...
THE JAPS KILLED HIM "
Adam Pelko witnessed something horrible: the sinking of the USS "Arizona" during the attack on Pearl Harbor -- with his father aboard. Since then, Adam and his mother and sister have moved to California, where they are trying...
Eleven-year-old Darcy hasn't lived in any one place long enough to have a best friend--until her family settles in Frenchtown and she meets Kathleen Mary O'Hara. Darcy is spellbound by Kathleen Mary's vivid tales of Catholicism. She shows Darcy a world beyond Frenchtown: a world of daring games and...
| Author | G. Clifton Wisler |
| ISBN | 0140369368 |
R.J. thought that war would be the ultimate adventure--until he was in the middle of it.
In 1862, thirteen-year-old Ransom J. Powell lies about his age and joins the Union Army as a drummer boy. At first, he is thrilled to be defending his country, but by the time he has been in his first skirmish...
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| ISBN | 0590481428 |
Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.
Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as...
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0380713586 |
The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his...
| Author | M.E. Kerr |
| ISBN | 0064470679 |
Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock.But Skye and Buddy fall in love anyway. And every once in a while they...
| Author | Alice Childress |
| ISBN | 0698118545 |
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for...
Lena can recite the Scriptures by heart. Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and to make her white classmates notice her "Magic Mind," not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. But winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and death erupt and...
| Author | Amy Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0763610348 |
Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!
"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr,...
| Author | James Madison |
| ISBN | 1883011663 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rakove (history and American studies, Stanford U.) made the selections and supplies notes for this one-volume collection of Madison's works. Arranged chronologically, it contains almost 200 documents written between 1772, the year after Madison's graduation...
| Author | James Lincoln Collier |
| ISBN | 0440495040 |
Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City.
Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0440229510 |
Near the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is a leading physicist building the atomic bomb. Stephen realizes the dangers involved...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0590208330 |
Despite its brevity (49 pages, plus the afterword and bibliography), this novella is emotional, compelling and educational. It explains the events of August 6, 1945, when the United States from the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The language is simple and easy to understand....
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698116380 |
The first chapter very briefly describes the history of exploration before Prince Henry of Portugal financed expeditions to sail down the west coast of Africa. He was angling for a trade route to Asia that Portugal could control and profit from. Progress was slow, but as the title informs you, it set...
What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People
| Author | Pearl Fuyo Gaskins |
| ISBN | 0805059687 |
In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another.
Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their...
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 1583227598 |
A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume...
| Author | Sheila Gordon |
| ISBN | 0440226988 |
I first read this book when I was in the fifth grade, and I've never forgotten it. It tells the story of two boys in apartheid-era South Africa, Tengo and Frikkie. The two boys are the best of friends; Tengo is the black son of the "boss boy" on a large, prosperous farm, while Frikkie is the nephew of the farm...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152054251 |
In this new edition of his first young adult novel, Gary Soto paints a moving portrait of seventeen-year-old Jesse, who has left his parents' home to live with his older brother. These Mexican American brothers hope junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor. Their...
| Author | Ernesto Galarza |
| ISBN | 0268004412 |
Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to the barrio of Sacramento, California, bustling and thriving in the early decades of the twentieth century. Galarza's saga begins in Jalcocotán, a mountain village just south...
Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement
| Author | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| ISBN | 0380813416 |
In this ideal introduction to black history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines the lives of heroic African Americans and offers their stories as inspiring examples for young people, who too rarely encounter positive black role models in history books or in the media.
Profiled here are Peter...
| Author | Lois Duncan |
| ISBN | 0440802482 |
This is a pretty good YA psychological thriller, in which a gullible, alienated 17-year-old girl is enticed by a strange (in both senses of the word) boy into abetting him in a harebrained scheme to abduct his missing toddler sister, who he says was kidnapped by her divorced father. She goes along with...
| Author | Patti Sheehy |
| ISBN | 1608090809 |
As a boy Frank Mederos's grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy...
| Author | Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa |
The 10th Anniversary Trade Paperback edition of Daughters of the Stone, includes a special note from the author, as well as a Readers Guide for educators and bookclubs.
It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her...
