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Sebastian's Trumpet
by Imai Miko
Three little bears receive musical instruments for their birthday and learn to play them.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Preschool, Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Candlewick Press, 1995, Cambridge, MA
Separate But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle
by Haskins, Jim
A history of black education in the United States.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Group High School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Scholastic Press, 1998, New York, NY
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
by Halfmann, Janet
Biography of Robert Smalls who, during the civil War, commandeered the confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom.
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Lee & Low Books, Inc.2008, 2008, New York, NY
Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems
by Giovanni, Nikki, ed.
An anthology of poetry from the Harlem Renaissance.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Middle School, High School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Henry Holt, 1996, New York, NY
Shoes for Everyone: A Story about Jan Matzeliger
by Barbara Mitchell
A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite hardships and prejudice, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry.
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1986, Minneapolis, MN
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.
