Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel
10 best books like Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel (Gigi Amateau): I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery, Son of a Gun, On Two Feet and Wings, The Glass Collector, Bloody Chester, Jump Into the Sky, Freakling, Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies, Down Sand Mountain, Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
| Author | Cynthia Grady |
| ISBN | 0802853862 |
This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her daughter to the auction block, a blacksmith,...
| Author | Anne de Graaf |
| ISBN | 0802854060 |
Based on true stories of former child soldiers interviewed by the author in Liberia, Son of a Gun describes the journey of a brother and sister, ten-year-old Lucky and eight-year-old Nopi, who are kidnapped from school and forced to become child soldiers.
Lucky and Nopi manage to escape with the...
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This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran-Iraq War provides a powerful child's-eye view of political tumult, separation, survival, dreams and triumphs in a moving memoir that chronicles extraordinary times...
| Author | Anna Perera |
| ISBN | 0141331151 |
3.5 stars.
It’s normal in Cairo- the city of magic and ancient mysteries- for rich and poor to stand side by side, to share the same doorways and buildings, the same streets, without ever really seeing each other.
“Nothing can satisfy our minds like the kinds of journeys we are...
| Author | J.T. Petty |
| ISBN | 1596431008 |
A deliciously gruesome horror tale set in the old west.
This isn't John Wayne's heroic old west.
This is the real deal: a filthy, disease-ridden frontier populated by losers, lunatics, and murderers. And when you're a skinny teenager with no family and a name like Chester Kates, your...
| Author | Shelley Pearsall |
| ISBN | 0375836993 |
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while his father...
| Author | Lana Krumwiede |
| ISBN | 0763659371 |
In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi—the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament exposes his disability,...
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0763650250 |
A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist.
"King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. . . . You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in...
| Author | Steve Watkins |
| ISBN | 0763638390 |
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.
It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
| Author | Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| ISBN | 0763616923 |
A dynamic author-illustrator team follows the threetime heavyweight champ through twelve rounds of a remarkable life.
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. . . . I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived!"
From the moment a fired-up teenager from Kentucky won 1960 Olympic gold...
| Author | Kekla Magoon |
| ISBN | 1442422300 |
What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie’s choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River.
Bad things happen in the heat, they say.
Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moment’s notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago...
| Author | Patrick Bowman |
| ISBN | 1927401607 |
Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by the...
| Author | Peter Goodchild |
| ISBN | 1580810578 |
I love the film Inherit the Wind (the 1960 version with Spencer Tracy) so I was pleased to find this play about the Scopes trial as one of the 2016 SYNC audiobook offerings. While I enjoyed this audiobook, it didn't come across as a play but more as a full cast recording of a book due to the exposition of a "narrator"...
| Author | Monica Edinger |
| ISBN | 0763650382 |
Inspired by a true account, here is the compelling story of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad —and eventually makes her way home to Africa.
When a drought hits her homeland in Sierra Leone, nine-year-old Magulu is sold as a pawn by her father in exchange for rice. But before...
| Author | Allan Wolf |
| ISBN | 0763621137 |
I thought this book was amazing! It is told from the point of view of twelve different members of the Corps of Discovery, plus Capt. Lewis's newfoundland dog. While each of the human members of the expedition speaks in a sort of free verse poetry, the dog's point of view is written in regular prose. I thought...
| Author | Nita Belles |
| ISBN | 0801018579 |
This book is the primer on human trafficking in North America.
In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other...
| Author | John Dudley Ball |
| ISBN | 0316079456 |
Third in the series and far superior to the second. Virgil Tibbs is yet again a strong, opinionated, self controlled anchor for the story, but the characters revolving around him are a wonder. Few times have written words moved me to tears, but the absolutely heartbreaking description of the - by today's...
| Author | Jon Blake |
| ISBN | 0807543640 |
Jade has always trusted the authorities, but now she begins to question the very society in which she lives. Not far in the future, cat breeding is strictly controlled and cats are only for the rich in their private estates. When beautiful, sleek Feela turns up in Jade's backyard, she cannot resist taking...
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0763675547 |
I was drawn to this book about the First World War, as I was interested to find out more. In general, if I want to dip my toe into a subject I start with a book written for children and then, once I have the basic facts, I can decide if I want to delve deeper. I have read very little about the First World War, whereas,...
'This boy has bought me. This white boy who don't even look as old as I am. He owns me body and soul and my worth has been set at six hundred dollars.'
Samuel's an educated boy. Been taught by a priest. He was never supposed to be a slave.
He's a good boy too, thoughtful and kind. The type of boy who'd...
| Author | Diane Zahler |
| ISBN | 1623706424 |
Bee is an orphan, alone in a poor, crumbling kingdom. In desperation, she steals a bun from a bakery, and to her surprise, the baker offers her a place at his shop. As she learns to bake, Bee discovers that she has a magical power. When a new friend desperately needs her help against an evil mage, Bee wonders...
| Author | Tonya Cherie Hegamin |
| ISBN | 0763657697 |
In 1848, an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice — between bondage and freedom, family and love.
On one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master’s favorite servant. She’s been taught to read and has learned to write. She believes her master...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0062112716 |
In New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's last novel, he delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as Master Juba, who lived in the nineteenth century.
This engaging historical novel is based on the true story of the meteoric rise of an immensely talented...
| Author | Ilyasah Shabazz |
| ISBN | 0763669679 |
Cowritten by Malcolm X’s daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.
I am Malcolm.
I am my father’s son. But to be my father’s son means that they will always come for me.
They will always come for me,...
