Diane Dillon

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1) I can be anything: don't tell me I can't!

Author

Dillon, Diane

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press

Pub. Date

2018.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Zoe is sure that she can be anything she wants to be, despite a little voice of doubt that points out the problems with her ideas--but first she needs to learn how to read.

2) Who's in Rabbit's house?: a Masai tale

Author

Aardema, Verna

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in.

3) Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: a West African tale

Author

Aardema, Verna

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit.

4) If kids ran the world

Author

Dillon, Leo

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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In text and pictures, this book tells us how much better the world would be, if kids were allowed to run the world.

5) Never forgotten

Author

McKissack, Pat

Publisher

Schwartz & Wade Books

Pub. Date

2011

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.

6) Many thousand gone: African Americans from slavery to freedom

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

c1993

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

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Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

7) The tale of the mandarin ducks

Author

Paterson, Katherine

Publisher

Lodestar Books

Pub. Date

c1990

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.

8) Mama says: a book of love for mothers and sons

Author

Walker, Rob D

Publisher

Blue Sky Press

Pub. Date

c2009

Language

English

Description

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A man recalls all of the important lessons Mama taught about behavior and faith in God as he was growing up. Different English phrases are translated into one of eleven languages, including Cherokee, Russian, and Amharic.

9) Where have you been?

Author

Brown, Margaret Wise

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2004

Language

English

Description

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In rhyming verse, various animals tell where they have been.

10) Her stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

Blue Sky Press

Pub. Date

c1995

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

11) Blast off

Author

Cain, Linda C

Publisher

New York Review Books

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Description

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When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.