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.
Joseph
By: Shelia P. Moses
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: March 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Flood is the victim of his mother Betty's addictions to crack and alcohol. An African American boy living in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood, Joseph has little chance for survival if his soldier...
3.
Good Fortune
By: Noni Carter
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 12
Ayanna Bahati lives in a small African village when she is brutally kidnapped, along with her brother, and forced onto a slave ship to America. As Ayanna, renamed Anna, rises from the cotton fields to the master’s house,...
4.
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...
5.
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
6.
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,...
7.
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...
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...
