Résultats de recherche de titre
Articles 1 à 20 sur 30
Africville
Par Shauntay Grant. 2018
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated BooksWhen a young girl visits the site of…
Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like — the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the field where boys played football, the pond where all the kids went rafting, the bountiful fishing, the huge bonfires. Coming out of her reverie, she visits the present-day park and the sundial where her great- grandmother’s name is carved in stone, and celebrates a summer day at the annual Africville Reunion/Festival.Africville was a vibrant Black community for more than 150 years. But even though its residents paid municipal taxes, they lived without running water, sewers, paved roads and police, fire-truck and ambulance services. Over time, the city located a slaughterhouse, a hospital for infectious disease, and even the city garbage dump nearby. In the 1960s, city officials decided to demolish the community, moving people out in city dump trucks and relocating them in public housing.Today, Africville has been replaced by a park, where former residents and their families gather each summer to remember their community.Amber and clay
Par Laura Amy Schlitz. 2021
The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original…
epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy. Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed—the curse of all highborn girls—but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos—Amber and Clay—never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses. It takes an army of snarky gods and fearsome goddesses, slaves and masters, mothers and philosophers to help shape their story into a gorgeously distilled, symphonic tour de force. Blending verse, prose, and illustrated archaeological "artifacts," this is a tale that vividly transcends time, an indelible reminder of the power of language to illuminate the over—and underworlds of human historySiege: how General Washington kicked the British out of Boston and launched a revolution
Par Roxane Orgill. 2018
A novel in verse. Story of the siege of Boston that launched the war to defeat the British. Follows the…
events from the summer of 1775 to the spring of 1776, and gives voice to the soldiers and civilians of that time. For grades 6-9. 2018The colors of the rain
Par R. L. Toalson. 2018
A novel in verse. In 1972, after his father is killed, Paulie is sent to live with his Aunt Bee…
in Houston, a city fighting desegregation. But as Paulie gets into fights with a black student, he is forced to understand the circumstances surrounding his father's death. For grades 4-7. 2018It rained warm bread: Moishe Moskowitz's story of hope
Par Hope Anita Smith, Lea Lyon, Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet. 2019
A novel in verse and fictionalized account of the experiences of a Polish Jew, Moishe, who, with his parents, brother,…
and a sister, struggles to survive the Nazi invasion and the Holocaust. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2019Lion Island: Cuba's warrior of words
Par Margarita Engle. 2016
Novel in verse. In 1870s Cuba, Antonio Chuffat, a messenger boy of Chinese, African, and Cuban descent, becomes a translator…
and documents the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country. For grades 5-8. 2016Freedom over me: eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life
Par Ashley Bryan. 2016
Eleven enslaved people narrate their experiences as pieces of property and talk about personal dreams and desires that could never…
be taken away from them. Based on original slave auction and plantation estate documents. For grades 3-6. 2016Finding wonders: three girls who changed science
Par Jeannine Atkins. 2016
Biographical novel in verse featuring three notable women scientists in three different time periods: Maria Merian, a naturalist and scientific…
illustrator; Mary Anning, a fossil collector and paleontologist; and Maria Mitchell, an astronomer. For grades 4-7. 2016You can fly: the Tuskegee Airmen
Par Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford. 2016
History in verse that celebrates the Tuskegee Airmen. Recounts the challenges faced by the African American pilots in WWII, who…
triumphed in the skies and blew past the color barriers as fighter squadrons. For grades 5-8. 2016One today
Par Dav Pilkey, Richard Blanco. 2015
Full cicada moon
Par Marilyn Hilton. 2015
Novel in verse. In 1969, seventh-grader Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race…
background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy and carpentry make her feel like an outsider. For grades 4-7. 2015My man Blue: poems
Par Nikki Grimes, Jerome Lagarrigue Lagarrigue. 2002
A collection of poems tells the story of a young, impressionable boy moving to a city neighborhood with his mother.…
He meets his mother's tough-looking friend Blue, and as the older man watches out for the boy a bond develops. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 1999Inside out & back again
Par Thanhha Lai, Thanhhà Lai. 2011
Ten-year-old H ̉writes poems to chronicle the life-changing year of 1975, when H,̉ her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam…
and resettle in Alabama. For grades 4-7. National Book Award. 2011All the broken pieces: a novel in verse
Par Ann E. Burg. 2009
Matt Pin was nine when he was airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975 and adopted by an American couple. Two…
years later Matt is still haunted by a terrible secret from his war-torn past, one that his new parents and Vietnam veterans help him confront. For grades 5-8. 2009T4: a novel in verse
Par Ann Clare LeZotte. 2008
Paula Becker, who is deaf, is thirteen years old when the Nazi party takes control of Germany. It is a…
time when people with disabilities are ordered to be killed in Hitler's Tiergartenstrasse 4, nicknamed T4. She escapes a raid, but her new world is one of fear, desperation, and uncertainty as she struggles to survive. Her stories are told in free verse. For grades 6-9Miss Emily
Par Matt Phelan, Burleigh Muten, Burleigh Mutén. 2014
Known to the rest of us as the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, Miss Emily was a joyful presence in the…
lives of her young neighbors in nineteenth century Amherst, Massachusetts. This inviting novel, written in free verse, introduces young readers to the playful side of an American original. For grades 3-6Freedom in Congo Square
Par Carole Boston Weatherford, R. Gregory Christie. 2016
The story in rhyme of Congo Square--the one place that slaves could congregate in New Orleans on Sundays to celebrate…
their heritage by dancing and sharing music together. For grades K-3Brewster the rooster
Par Devin Scillian, Lee White. 2007
Wagons west!
Par Roy Gerrard. 1996
Back in 1850, many Americans worked hard to make a living from the barren soil. When Buckskin Dan arrives in…
town with tales of rich green land in Oregon, a young girl and her family, along with their neighbors, set out for a long journey to a new home with Buckskin Dan as their guide. For grades 2-4George Washington's cows
Par David Small. 1994
George Washington's cows wear lavender gowns and have to be begged to give milk. His hogs are happy to work…
when the servants are sick, and his sheep are very smart. Washington soon begins to think he should leave the farm and look for another job. For grades K-3 and older readers