Richard Wright and the Library Card
10 best books like Richard Wright and the Library Card (William Miller): If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, Ron's Big Mission, Tomás and the Library Lady, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington, She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story, Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, Uncle Jed's Barbershop, Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
| Author | Faith Ringgold |
| ISBN | 0689856768 |
If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the...
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0152054456 |
"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"*
--Alia Muhammad Baker
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along...
| Author | Rose Blue |
| ISBN | 0525478493 |
Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by "himself." But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron's obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage - it...
Tomás and the Library Lady
| Author | Pat Mora |
| ISBN | 0613283627 |
A young Texan finds refuge in his new Iowa town's library, where the librarian offers him cool comfort from hot summer days and whirlwind adventures through reading. Colon's beautiful scratchboard illustrations, in his textured, glowingly colored, rhythmic style, capture the warmth and the dreams...
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
| Author | Jabari Asim |
| ISBN | 0316086576 |
Booker dreamed
of making friends with words,
setting free the secrets
that lived in books.
Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton...
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
| Author | Audrey Vernick |
| ISBN | 0061349208 |
"A wonderful picture book biography. Little girls will be inspired."*
Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth’s mighty swing. But she never dreamed she would someday own a baseball team. Or be the first—and only—woman ever inducted...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0807530174 |
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You’ll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his...
| Author | Margaree King Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0689819137 |
Summary/A Thoughtful Review:
In the last line of Margaree King Mitchell’s text she writes: “He taught me to dream, too.” These few words summarize the story Mitchell has written that tells of the love and determination of one man, Jedediah Johnson. Told though the eyes of Sarah Jean, his...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763625620 |
George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit — from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 0618492984 |
When he was born in 1879, Albert was a peculiarly fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, frustrated his teachers, and had few friends. But Albert’s strange childhood also included his brilliant capacity for puzzles and problem solving: the mystery...
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 0689856431 |
On an island called Puerto Rico, there lived a little boy who wanted only to play baseball. Although he had no money, Roberto Clemente practiced and practiced until--eventually--he made it to the Major Leagues. America! As a right-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he fought tough opponents--and...
| Author | Lucia M. Gonzalez |
| ISBN | 0892392223 |
It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and...
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...
| Author | Peter Golenbock |
| ISBN | 0152006036 |
This book is about the crazy road of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. It does a great job talking about how hard it was for Jackie to get into the major leagues and how much he had to go through to play the sport that he loved. As time went on, he was on the team and Pee Wee Reese had to stand up for whats right and...
| Author | Nikki Giovanni |
| ISBN | 0805082646 |
Our 16th president is known for many things: He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very...
| Author | Christine King Farris |
| ISBN | 0545035376 |
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister, Christine, recounts the day of the March and his 'I Have A Dream Speech' in Washington D.C. I listened to this on audiobook and I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes, which was nice, and I'm glad I did because there were pieces from that day inserted into the audiobook...
| Author | Marie Bradby |
| ISBN | 0531094642 |
Simply put a beautiful story on reading with beautiful imagery. However, “More Than Anything Else” was more than that. It had a likable character named Booker to follow throughout the story. It compared grasping or “holding” on to something, a frog, with grasping knowledge or learning to...
Frederick's Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass (A Big Words Book)
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 1423114388 |
Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He was taken from his mother as a baby, and separated from his grandparents when he was six. He suffered hunger and abuse, but miraculously, he learned how to read. Frederick read newspapers left in the street, and secretly collected spellings from neighborhood...
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
| Author | Richard Michelson |
| ISBN | 0375833358 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality.
Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy,...
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 0439352436 |
Soar along with Bessie Coleman in this inspirational tale of a woman whose determination reached new heights.
Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was always being told what she could & couldn't do. In an era when Jim Crow laws and segregation were a way of life, it was not easy to survive. Bessie...
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
They called her "Minty."
When she grew up, she became Harriet Tubman, the courageous and heroic woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad. But she was just a little girl for a while--and this is her story. Minty, short for Araminta, was a feisty and...
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr.
| Author | Jean Marzollo |
| ISBN | 0439782244 |
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This book is a beautifully-rendered study of Martin Luther King Jr.'s...
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i
| Author | Fay Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688180205 |
The day she was born, bells rang joyously and cannon fired noisy salutes--at last there was an heir to the Hawai'ian throne. But although this beautiful young princess worked tirelessly to prepare herself to rule, and fought bravely to protect the rights of her beloved people, she would never be queen.
When...
