The Journal of Jedediah Barstow: An Emigrant on the Oregon Trail, Overland 1845

Ellen Levine

Schalastic

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Reference

Scholastic Press

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Henry's Freedom Box

scholastic

David Mansfield

Weston Woods Studios

I Hate English!

Scholastic Books

When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to adjust to school and learn the alien sounds of English

I Hate English! (A Blue Ribbon Book)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Paperbacks

If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King --When did the civil rights movement begin? --Were children involved in civil rights protests? --What was the March on Washington? This book tells you what it was like during the exciting era when Martin Luther King led the fight against segregation.

. . . If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King

Beth Peck

Biographies & Memoirs

This book does not stop when it is read to the students. We can proceed by teaching them about our country's history, environmental issues, social issues, and trees in general. We can help students understand the importance of trees to every day life (oxygen) and putting trees into good use such as paper, pencils, even gum. I will truly use this book to its fullest allowing students to appreciate not only the issues in this book but also providing them with the beauty of literature. This book will deliver the joy of reading.

The Tree That Would Not Die

If You Lived With the Iroquois

Geography & Cultures

Demco Media

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