My Name Is Sally Little Song
10 best books like My Name Is Sally Little Song (Brenda Woods): Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906, Numbering All the Bones, All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Victory, Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs, The Legend of Bass Reeves, Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet, When I Crossed No-Bob, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0375836527 |
“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.”
Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0786813784 |
The Civil War is at an end, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, it is no time to rejoice. Her younger brother Zeke was sold away, her older brother Neddy joined the Northern war effort, and her master will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter.
Her mettle is additionally tested when she realizes...
Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.
Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since...
| Author | John Hendrix |
| ISBN | 0810937980 |
Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown. This is the first book for young readers to include these...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 1416914773 |
Two Children, Two Struggles, One Battle...
One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, an English girl transplanted from London to the United States...
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
| Author | Mary E. Lyons |
| ISBN | 1416936378 |
Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be given her freedom, and for the first time Harriet feels hopeful. But hoping can be dangerous, because disappointment is devastating. Harriet has one last hope,...
Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West.
Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. But of all the sheriffs of the frontier, one man stands out as a true...
Sometime around 1815, an enslaved young man named Dave was brought to Edgefield, South Carolina, the center of a pottery-producing area known for the alkaline glazes used on the stoneware. Dave was taught how to turn pots and jars on a pottery wheel by one of his first owners. As Dave's talent flourished,...
| Author | Margaret McMullan |
| ISBN | 0618717153 |
Life as an O’Donnell is all twelve-year-old Addy knows, and life as an O’Donnell means trouble.
Tucked away in a gray patch of woods called No-Bob, the O’Donnell clan has nothing but a bad reputation. So when Addy’s mama abandons her on the afternoon of Mr. Frank Russell’s wedding celebration,...
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0805083332 |
A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams—could any young adventurer ask for more? Not Carlo Chuchio, who is seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road of Golden Dreams.
With Baksheesh, the world's worst camel-puller,...
| Author | V.A. Richardson |
| ISBN | 1582349843 |
In the autumn of 1636, tulip fever is sweeping Amsterdam, and Europe's fortunes rise and fall with the promise of the New World. That year, the great Dutch family of Windjammer suffers the loss of their entire trading fleet and they face certain ruin. The only person who can save the family's home, fortune,...
Tituba, the minister's slave, gazed into the stone watering trough. She did not see her own reflection. Instead, she saw a vision of herself, surrounded by angry people. The people were staring at her. Their faces showed fear. That was several years ago. It is now 1692, and there is strange talk in Salem...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0152054650 |
In 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, Mamanatowic, is just eleven; but in spite of her age, this astute young...
| Author | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| ISBN | 0440229197 |
Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government...
| Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
| ISBN | 0525477519 |
This was a very interesting book. I greatly enjoyed the main character's eventual development into manhood and the tone of the story. This book handled a tense historical period, and did a good job of inserting fictional characters seamlessly into that world. I thought that the characters were interesting,...
| Author | Gill Harvey |
| ISBN | 0747579458 |
The Orphan of the Sun by Gill Harvey takes place under the sweltering sun in the civilization of Ancient Egypt. It is a historical fiction book with a mix of adventure and mystery. This is a book about Meryt-Re, a girl who had been asked to marry by Senmut. She really has no interest in marrying him and has...
| Author | Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| ISBN | 0345389700 |
During the time of slavery in the U.S., many slave owners had slaves as mistresses. The men who had such arrangements were men of wealth and power. Former President Thomas Jefferson was one of those men. Harriet Hemings was one of the bastard children of Thomas Jefferson and his slave/lover Sally Hemings....
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 1585364193 |
Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn’t live in the great house. She is a slave. It’s dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. And it’s sunset when she comes home. But her day isn’t done, not yet. Ella May still has important work to do. She’s got to listen.Each...
| Author | J.D. McClatchy |
| ISBN | 0375411704 |
From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter–a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.
The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico García Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H....
| Author | Rebecca Rupp |
| ISBN | 0763628042 |
In the long-awaited follow-up to THE DRAGON OF LONELY ISLAND, three adventurous children find further intrigue on a tiny Maine island where a talkative three-headed dragon lives out its days.
With their parents off to London on a special trip, Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are thrilled...
| Author | Silvana Gandolfi |
| ISBN | 8877824867 |
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My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier
| Author | Lynda Durrant |
| ISBN | 0618574905 |
Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in order to help support her impoverished Irish family with a shepherd’s wages. Then her arrival in America confirmed her belief that the world offers better opportunities to young men than to young women. So Jennie maintained her outward identity...
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing
| Author | Catherine E. McKinley |
| ISBN | 0385473559 |
Destined to become a classic in the tradition of the best-selling Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica. Afrekete gives collective voice to the tradition of black lesbian writing. In the vast and proliferating area of both African-American and lesbian and gay writing,...
| Author | Carolyn Keene |
| ISBN | 1416978429 |
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy must figure out who is dumping pollutants at the resort.
Seeing Green is the...
