Biographies

Alan Schroeder
 * Minty **

This book tells the story of a young slave named Harriet Tubman. Tubman was treated very poorly by her masters. She was severely beaten and forced to work outside in the fields. She kept saying that she would run away, and her father started to train her how to survive in the wild. He taught her how to swim, tell which way was north, and even how to catch a fish with a nail. She learned everything she needed to know about escaping to a better life. One night, she saw a horse tied outside of her masters’ house. This was her chance to escape! Would she take it? Would she make it to freedom? - LP

**Rosa﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿ ** Nikki Giovanni

This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Rosa Parks’ stand for equality when she chose not to let a white man have her seat. This book includes a lot of dialogue that makes the reader more connected with the story. This book raises awareness on what life was like as a black woman during the 1940s and 1950s and how one woman made all the difference in the fight for equality. This would definitely be a wonderful book to use in a classroom, especially when talking about the civil rights movement. Amazing book! - LP Author: Jacqueline Woodson This book tells a fascinating story about a generation of slave women. Each woman had two things in common: they all had children and they all made quilts. In the early generations, the quilts were made into maps that brought the slaves to freedom. In the later generations once the slaves were freed, the quilts served as a way to remember their ancestors and where they had come from. The quilts represented hope and freedom which was something that not ever person in the generation was able to experience. This book is a very interesting book that is sometimes hard to understand, because it is in very broken English. The language really helped to make the book come alive and seem real, though. This would be a good book when talking about the slaves. I think it gives a really good picture of what life was like for a certain slave family. It is a beautifully written and illustrated book.- LP
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