To Be a Slave (Plus)

Julius Lester

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

Basketball Game (Puffin Teenage Fiction)

Children's Books

This is a true story based on the life of a black cowboy named Bob Lemmons.

Black Cowboy Wild Horses: A True Story

Jerry Pinkney

Education & Reference

Harcourt

From Wikipedia: John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.[6] He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life".[citation needed] He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. ~~~ The Call of the Wild is a novella by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts and the lessons he has learned to become a respected and feared leader in the wild. ~~~ The Call of the Wild is London's most popular work and is considered the masterpiece of his so-called "early period."[1] The novella is often classified as children's literature because of its animal protagonist, but the maturity of its subject matter makes it valuable for older audiences as well. Major themes include survival of the fittest, civilization versus nature, and fate versus free will.[2] ~~~ The Yeehat, a group of Alaska Natives portrayed in Call of the Wild, were a figment of London's imagination.[3]

The Call of the Wild and Related Readings (Literature Connections)

Robert Murphy

Marie, De France

Elizabeth Marshall

A. G. Rochelle

Sally Carrighar

Jack, London

McDougal, Littell

Very nice copy with teacher's name inside and mild wear (ch)

Sam and the Tigers : A New Telling of Little Black Sambo

scholastic

In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr. - the staunch and gentle man known to thousands in black churches throughout the South as the Singing Evangelist and to one white reporter as "the Colored Billy Graham" - is trying to compose his own obituary on what will be the last day of his life. In doing so, he looks back over that life - from his childhood in rural northern Mississippi to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, from tears to humiliation to songs of celebration and triumph.

Do Lord Remember Me

United States

Dent

To be a Slave

History

World

The Dial Press

The knee-high man, and other tales

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Kestrel Books

This Strange New Feeling

One of the most complex periods in American history is illuminated by the love stories of three couples and their fights for freedom from slavery

Teen & Young Adult

Scholastic Paperbacks

An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish

How Many Spots Does A Leopard Have? And Other Tales

Scholastic. Inc.

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