Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
10 best books like Martin Rising: Requiem For a King (Andrea Davis Pinkney): We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, Let the Children March, Drawn Together, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten (Early Elementary Story Books, Children's Music Books, Biography Books for Kids), Thank You, Omu!, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968, What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
| Author | Traci Sorell |
| ISBN | 1632896338 |
The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations...
| Author | Monica Clark-Robinson |
| ISBN | 0544704525 |
I couldn't go to their schools.
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.
There were so many things I couldn't do.
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...
Drawn Together
| Author | Minh Lê |
| ISBN | 1484767608 |
Alma and How She Got Her Name
| Author | Juana Martinez-Neal |
| ISBN | 0763693553 |
If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for...
| Author | Sandra Neil Wallace |
| ISBN | 1481443879 |
When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw....
| Author | Laura Veirs |
| ISBN | 1452148570 |
Elizabeth Cotten was only a little...
| Author | Oge Mora |
| ISBN | 0316431249 |
Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses...
| Author | Alice Faye Duncan |
| ISBN | 1629797189 |
In...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
| Author | Chris Barton |
| ISBN | 1481465619 |
Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 1626728720 |
Blue
| Author | Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
| ISBN | 1626720665 |
There’s the soft blue of a baby’s cherished blanket, the ocean blue of a romp in the waves, the chilly blue of a cold winter’s walk in the snow, and the true blue of the bond that exists between children and animals.
In this simple, sumptuously illustrated...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Joyce Sidman |
| ISBN | 0544717139 |
Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.” Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them?
One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was...
| Author | Irene Latham |
How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham,...
| Author | Gail Jarrow |
| ISBN | 1629797766 |
On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense...