Jerry Pinkney
8) John Henry
Author
Summary
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
12) Aesop's fables
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile Measure
760L
Summary
A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork."
14) A place to land
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile Measure
990L
Summary
"The true story behind the writing of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech."--Provided by publisher.
15) In plain sight
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Summary
"An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find"--
Author
Summary
As a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the movement that it galvanized.
Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List
Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his...
Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List
Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his...