Mary E Lyons
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recounts through quotations from Irish citizens the devastating effects of the great Irish potato famine (the Great Hunger) of 1845-52, the worst disaster of the 19th century. More than a quarter of the country's 8 million people had either starved to death, died of disease, or immigrated to other lands. For ages 9-12.