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When Jessie Came Across the Sea
by Amy Hest
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
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Topics
Women's History,
19th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Candlewick Press, 1997, Cambridge, MA
Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
No matter how you feel about rodeo, it's hard not to admire Pickett, who was known to bring an unruly steer to its knees by taking a bite out of the animal's upper lip
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1996, New York, NY
Dear Benjamin Banneker
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Banneker, an 18th-century astronomer and mathematician, was a free African American who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson about ending slavery.
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Topics
African American History,
18th-Century History - Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Voyager Books, 1998, New York, NY
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
A brief picture book on the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Awards Caldecott Medal, Coretta Scott King Award
- Publisher Hyperion Books for Children, 1998, New York, NY
. . . If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln
by Ann McGovern
The author shows what it would be like to live in the same places that Lincoln lived - Kentucky and Indiana, a prairie town, and the city of Springfield, Illinois.
- Topic 19th-Century History
- Age Groups Preschool, Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Holiday House, 1989, New York, NY
Award Key
- Caldecott Medal
- Most distinguished American picture book for children (annually).
- Newberry Medal
- Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children (annually).
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Distinguished books by authors and illustrators of African descent which promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream (annually).
- Golden Kite Award
- Outstanding examples of text, illustration, fiction and nonfiction (four awards annually).
- Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
- Outstanding work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher set in the New World.
