Showing 1–3 of 3 titles

• Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
• Genre: US History

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  Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

  Nelson's dramatic renderings evoke the spiritual and physical journey of Harriet Tubman. Emotionally powerful images combined with poetically evocative text portray a strong woman who followed her star to an extraordinary destiny.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 2007 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780786851751
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  Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

  The inspirational singer and Civil Rights activist comes to life in 22 brief, first person, free verse poems that seamlessly incorporate Hamer's own words. The biography takes her from a sharecropping child to a community leader.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Poetry, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Randolph Caldecott Medal 2016 (Honor Title), Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9780763665319
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  You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford (Illustrator)

  This collection of free-verse poems offers an evocative portrait of the U.S.' first African American military pilots, who trained at the Tuskegee Institute during WWI.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2017
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781481449380