Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month this February with books from Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing!
1.
Eliza's Freedom Road
An Underground Railroad Diary
By: Jerdine Nolen
Illustrated by: Shadra Strickland
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: January 4, 2011
Ages: 8 - 12
It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza’s mother has been sent away and it is Abbey, the cook, who looks after Eliza, when Eliza isn’t taking care of the Mistress. Eliza has the quilt her mother left her and the...
Other Formats: eBook
2.
The Rock and the River
By: Kekla Magoon
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 9 - 14
In 1968 Chicago, it’s not easy for thirteen-year-old Sam to be the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older brother, Stick, starts keeping to himself. Then, one day, Sam finds something...
3.
Coretta Scott King
First Lady of Civil Rights (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: George E. Stanley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Coretta Scott King is well known for being the wifeÊof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and for her own civil rights and world peace activism. She also received many awards and honorary degrees. But before she did all of...
Other Formats: eBook
4.
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister,...
5.
Barack Obama
Son of Promise, Child of Hope
By: Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by: Bryan Collier
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2008
Ages: 5 - 10
Just in time for the 2012 election, a book & CD edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling picture-book biography of the 44th President!Nikki Grimes’s lyrical text and Bryan Collier's distinctive collages tell the...
6.
Little Rock Nine
(Part of Turning Points)
By: Marshall Poe
Illustrated by: Ellen Lindner
This edition: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
There are moments in every country's history when decisions are made and actions are taken that will change the course of that country's future. Turning Points historical graphic novels bring these moments in American history...
7.
My Brother Martin
A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By: Christine King Farris
Illustrated by: Chris Soentpiet
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2003
Ages: 6 - 11
"Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."
Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
8.
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
By: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Illustrated by: Raul Colon
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
"Oh, I'm singing the bus-rider blues, the Alabamy bus-rider blues. I got me a feeling, deep down inside, It ain't never ever gonna be the same." During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus...
