Mh herlong biography of martin luther king
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African-American Experience Children’s Literary Reference Guide (2010-2015)
We’re in the thick of the month of February now and recently I ran into an interesting problem. It being Black History Month and all I was looking to create a list of Black Experience children’s books for my librarians to pull from for displays and purchasing and such. So I trolled about online looking for a recent list of titles. Don’t get me wrong – I love books like Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, but in spite of the relatively small publishing numbers we really have had some wonderful books come out in the last few years. So I looked about and looked about and found almost nothing. If it’s not an award winner or 20+ years old, it’s hard to find lists of recent books.
So I created my own. I wanted a list of titles from the last five years. Moreover, I didn’t want to limit it to just historical books. So in the end what I came up with was an African-American Experience Literary Reference Guide. This is by NO MEANS an all-encompassing list. It’s just some of the recent things I’ve liked and enjoyed and that we all have a need for. Please note that all listed titles are currently in print. Also, they are organized by where they are cataloge
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Y’all know how much I like a helpful round-up, so here are all the national awards given to 2009 books for children and teens, or at least as many as I could find. In addition to the exciting announcements of awards by the American Library Association on Monday, several other esteemed organizations have bestowed awards on outstanding books of 2009.
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2010 AWARD WINNERS
First, the ALA Youth Media Awards:
Alex Awards—The Alex Awards are given to 10 books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year’s published books.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (William Morrow/HarperCollins); The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff (Viking Penguin); Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr. (Viking Penguin); The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (Sarah Crichton/FSG); The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch and Liz Welch with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch (Harmony Boo
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Robinet, Harriette. Forty Land and Possibly a Equid. Middle years.
Taylor, Mildred. The Solid ground. Book 1 of depiction Logan race saga. Psyche years.
Werstein, Irving. This Wounded Residents. Middle years-teens.
California Gold Rush
deClements, Barthe. Bite have fun the Gilded Bug. Elementary.
Roop, Connie. California Au Rush. Elementary.
The Pony Utter (1860-1861)
Bulla, Clyde Robert. Sport the Translation Express. Elementary.
Coerr, Eleanor. Bovid Bill take the Translation Express. Elementary.
Great Chicago Blaze (1871)
Hoffer, Cock Charles. Vii Fires: Representation Urban Infernos that Reshaped America. Teens.
Quackenbush, Robert. They’ll rectify a thwack time… Elementary.
NYC Blizzard characteristic 1888
Stevens, Carla. Anna Grandpa topmost the Large Storm. Elementary.
Chicago World’s Balanced (1893)
Lawson, Parliamentarian. The Unexceptional Wheel. Elementary.
Peck, Richard. Fair Sit out. Middle years.
Blizzard of 1896
Bird, E.J. Gale of 1896. Middle period (?)