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Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter by Yohuru Williams
There are things you may not know about this amazing baseball player. He always preferred to be called Jack, not Jackie. Martin Luther King, Jr., called him “a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” Find out about the deep rich life he lived in this biography illustrated with archival photographs and documents. (nonfiction) (advanced) |
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler and Joseph B. Egan
This memoir begins as Donn grows tired of waiting in the cold fog at the top of Maine’s Mt. Katahdin and decides to hike back alone. A few missteps later and he is thoroughly lost in a dangerous wilderness with few supplies. (nonfiction) (intermediate) |
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from the Past and Present by Adrienne Keene
Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of 50 Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers. Includes nineteenth-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis—the first Black and Native American female artist to achieve international fame; linguist jessie little doe baird, who revived the Wampanoag language; NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota; and Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. (nonfiction) (Intermediate) |
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