Amanda+Jones

=**Children's Literature**=


 * Topic: Slavery**

//Children’s Fiction // v Nelson, Vaunda M. (2003) **Almost to Freedom.** Carolrhoda Books. 40 pages. Maricopa Public Library. This book is told from a rag dolls point of view of her journey with her owner. The mother made this doll named Sally for her daughter Lindy. The family is slaves and one night they ran away to be with their father because he was sold to another owner. They met up with their father and were hiding out in a white people’s house underneath the floor board. But during their sleep, they woke up out of their sleep and began going out of the hiding area because they heard the slave catchers. When they were rushing out, Sally the doll fell out off of the little girl, leaving Sally all alone. A little while later, another runaway slave family came there and took Sally under her wing. I chose this book mainly because it talks about toys that slave owners had. This can teach children about different types of toys and how dolls were even around a long time ago. Children can create their own dolls and have them create a story about the travels the dolls went on. You can talk about history and arts using this book.
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v Raven, Margot T. (2007) **Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People.** Square Fish. 48 pages. Tempe Public Library. This book is about a grandmother and her granddaughter making baskets. The grandmother was telling her granddaughter the story on how the basket came to be and what their ancestors had went through; they were slaves. It didn’t talk about their pain and suffering just that they sewed baskets to remember where they came from. The reason this book was selected was because it didn’t tell the normal side of slavery. It told the part when slaves did stuff from their homeland. They made baskets. When using this book, teachers can talk about patterns and repetition. They can make baskets using cups and yarn. They can talk about traditions and heritage since they used stuff from their homeland.
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v Lyons, Kelly S. (2012) **Ellen’s Broom.** Putnam Juvenile. 32 pages. Maricopa Public Library. Ellen’s Broom is a book that talks about how the slaves were freed and that the slaves who were married can now be married legally on paper and by law. The tradition back then was when one got married they were to jump over a broom since that’s all the slaves were allowed to have. After the slavers were free, Ellen’s parents went to the courthouse to get married legally on paper, and Ellen decided to bring the broom with them. Ellen’s mother used it as a bouquet at the courthouse but afterwards, on the way home they had lunch outside and the parents jumped the broom for old time sakes for their children. This book is great when you want to talk about tradition to your children. The slaves were married when they jumped over a broom and now they just get a piece of paper. You could also talk to the students about generations and how they change over the years. This book was selected because I thought it was a fun and exciting way to learn about the tradition of jumping the broom since I’ve never knew what they meant before.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hooks, William H. (1995) **Freedom’s Fruit.** Knopf Books for Young Readers. 38 Pages. Tempe Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Freedom’s Fruit is about a slave woman who had magical powers and can cast spells. She had a daughter named Sheba, and all the mother wanted to do is buy her daughter’s freedom. She asked her master how much it would be to buy her daughters freedom and the mother saved as much as she could. The daughter knew of this plan and told her mother she didn’t want to go anywhere without the love of her life. One day the master came to the mother and told her to cast a spell on the grapes because all the slaves were eating them up, and she did so for a piece of gold. The mother soon came to realize she wouldn’t save enough to buy her daughters freedom so she thought of a plan and told her daughter and the love of her life to eat the grapes. Soon after they became very sick and old looking. The mother then went to the master and asked how much for their freedom and told her 20 pieces of gold and after that the two were free. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I selected this book was because it had a powerful story. The mother did everything that she could to set her daughter free. Teachers can use this book to talk about family and even bargaining. This book does have some math concepts in it, so this is a great book to read.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Polacco, Patricia. (2009) **January’s Sparrow.** Philomel. 96 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">January’s Sparrow is a book about slavery and how a family ran away. Sadie Crosswhites had a sparrow given to her by her brother in her eyes as a gift. One day, January tried to run away but he got caught and was beaten to death, as least the masters thought. Sadie and her family ran away shortly after and ended up in Michigan and they lived there for about 4 years, each day watching their backs to make sure that their owners didn’t come looking for them. One day Sadie got a package and it was the sparrow that Sadie left when they ran away with a note that says I found you. Thinking it was from their masters, the family came up with a plan just in case they were found. One night there was a knock on the door and sure enough it was their owners. The owners tried to take them away but the Crosswrites had the whole town of Marshall to help them. After a judge had ruled in their favor, their owners were placed in jail for two days, just long enough for them to get to Canada. Once Lincoln became president, the slaves were free and Sadie and her family came back to Marshall, Michigan and lived there until their death. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I chose this book because it gave a great story of how the slaves were treated, and what they had to do to get freedom. Every day they lived on fear, but still lived their life. This book is great for children in 3rd grade when talking about the Underground Railroad or even about distance. They had to get from Kentucky all the way to Michigan and Canada. Children can draw maps of the route and see how many days it might have taken them.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ransom, Candice. (2003) **Liberty Street.** Walker Books for young Readers. 32 pages. Tempe Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This story is about a mother helping her daughter get free from slavery. The daughter attends a secret school and learns some of the alphabet and words. One day the mother sent her daughter away to go to an underground tunnel and then she will end up in Canada and become a free person. The mother stayed behind to help the other slaves get free. The daughter told herself that she will go to school, learn as much as she could, become a teacher and then she will come back for her mother. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I selected this book because it talks about how slaves learned words in secret. Slaves wanted to learn about the alphabet so bad, that they risked their lives. This book can be used to teach about neighborhoods since it talks about Liberty Street and how it was the road for the slaves to use since the white people road was off limits.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cline-Ransome, Lesa. (2013) **Light in the Darkness: A Story About How Slaves Learned in Secret.** Jump At The Sun. 40 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is about a mother and her daughter who sneak away during the night to go to a pit school which is underground. They meet some other slaves there to and a man named Morris is the teacher. Each time they arrived they learn a new letter and the sounds it makes. Every time they would leave, they had to be careful not to get caught by their masters. If they did get caught, they would be whipped. Some masters would whip them for every letter they knew. All little Rosa wanted to do is to learn how to read and write so she made sure to eager her mom to go when her mom was too scared to leave the plantation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I selected this book was because it gave an insight that anyone can learn how to read and write regardless of color, age, and economics. These slaves wanted to learn how to read and write so bad that each time they went to school they risked their lives. So to me this will encourage students to want to learn as well. This book starts to introduce the first few letters on the alphabet which can be helpful for children in kindergarten when you first start talking about letters. This can also be helpful to teach students to use their ears, eyes, and hands to help them recall the letter they learned.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hegamin, Tonya C. (2008) **Most Loved in All the World.** 40 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is about a little girl and her mother who are slaves. The mother works out in the cotton field and the little girl brings water to the slaves outside and fetches things for her master. When the mother gets home, her hands are bleeding from picking so much cotton, and the little girl feels so bad that she wants to help. The mother won’t allow her to because she is too small. One day the mother is making a quilt with different patches on it. One is a cabin, another is a star, another a tree with moss growing on one side, and the other was a little black girl with a heart behind her. The daughter asked what it was for, the mother said for the master to sell, not knowing it was really for her. One night the mother awakened her little girl, and took her to a place in the forest and handed her off to some other slaves. The little girl was on her way to freedom with the quilt and without her mother. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book was selected because it a book for even the young ages to teach them about love from their mothers. A mother will do anything for her babies, even if that means giving them off to strangers so that the baby doesn’t have live in slavery. Children can also make their own quilts with each patch representing something special to them or making a scavenger hunt with it. Gets them talking about portraying important information or even writing stories.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Raven, Margot T. (2008) **Night Boat to Freedom.** Square Fish. 40 pages. Tempe Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This story is about a man named Christmas John and his grandmother. The grandmother and her grandchild were slaves and all they wanted was freedom. The grandmother told Christmas John to help a little girl over the river to freedom and he did. John continued on doing this and helped a lot of slaves over the river. Each time he got them to freedom he would ask the question what color are they wearing and he would tell his grandmother when he got back. Each color the grandmother would sew into her quilt and called it the freedom quilt. One night Christmas John and his grandmother set forth to go to freedom and they made it and placed their two colors that they were wearing on the two remaining slots on the quilt and that completed the quilt. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I picked this book because it talks about helping others in need. Christmas John helped so many slaves to freedom that when it was his turn to leave, he refused to go without his grandmother. This shows love and courage and I hope when teachers read this to their children they will see what those terms mean. This book can be used for vocabulary and also to learn about colors. If one is super creative they can incorporate math in there as well.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hopkinson, Deborah. (2005) **Under the Quilt of Night.** Aladdin; Reprint edition. 40 pages. Tempe Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a book about the Underground Railroad. There are these slaves that ran away and tells of their journey. One day they were hiding in the woods and one of the slaves saw a women set out a quilt on the clothes line outside. Normally quilts have red squares but this one had blue meaning this was a house for slaves to hide in. So the slaves spent the night there and were woken up because their owner was close behind. They were hidden in the wagon and was dropped off to a church where they took them to Canada and they became free. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I selected this book was because it talked about the Underground Railroad. It is a nice way to introduce to the students on what slaves had to go through in order to get their freedom. It mentions them staying at a safe house, and how they used quilts as their signals. Also this book was told in a poem so that is also interesting and teachers can use this when writing/talking about poems.
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//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 20pt;">Children’s Non-Fiction // v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rappaport, Doreen. (2000) **Freedom River.** Hyperion Book CH. 32 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Freedom River is about a man named John who was a slave but he bought his own freedom. John was determined to help free more slaves so he helped out a family get across the Ohio River. At first the family was to scared, so John returned back to Ohio. He went back again only to be turned down again because the slave owner took their baby is keeps her at their beds side. So john went home again. A little while later, John returned again and didn’t take no as an answer. John went to the master’s house, took the baby and got the family across the river safety to freedom. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I picked this book was because it was a touching story. I liked how a man would keep going back and risk his life only to help these slaves. Teachers can use this book when talking about the Ohio river and compare it to how wide it use to be back in the 1800 to how it is now in 2013.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Giovanni, Nikki. (2008) **Lincoln and Douglass : An American friendship.** Henry Holt and Co. 40 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is about the friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Lincoln was having a reception for the newly elected congressmen and was with his wife awaiting Douglass’s arrival. His wife wasn’t too thrilled to have him there since everyone there was white, but Lincoln didn’t care because that was his friend. The book also goes into a little bit of detail about the life of Lincoln and Frederick about how they first started. At the end of the story, Frederick finally arrived at the party only to find out that the people at the door was refusing him to come in through that door. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book was selected because it talks about Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and the friendship that they hard being of different color. So when talking to your children about friendship and to love everyone of every color this book is great to read to them. This also talks about the war of the south and north so this does has some history in the text as well.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Weatherford, Carole B. (2006) **Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.** Hyperion book CH. 48 pages. Tempe Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harriet Tubman is the main conductor of the Underground Railroad. In this book it talks about how Harriet ran away and her journey through freedom. It talks about how God lead her through it all, and all she had to do was have faith. At the end she reached Canada and was free but she wanted to go back and free her family to. So she put her faith in God and he guided her to go back several times to free not only her family but hundreds of other slaves. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I chose this book because it did talk about God and faith. I know a lot of schools can’t talk about religion and God but some schools can. I feel like this book shows how believing in him can get you far. Besides the religion part of it, teachers can use this to talk about the Underground Railroad and the journey slaves had to go through.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hamilton, Virginia. (2004) **The People Could Fly.** Knopf Books for Young Readers. 32 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is about a folklore from Africa that these people had wings and could fly. But one day they were captured and held as slaves. During their travel, the sea sickness made them forget that they could fly, but some still remembered. On a hot sunny day, a few slaves feel to their feet and this elderly slave came to them, whispered some magical words, and then the slave began to fly. A lot of the slaves got away but most of them didn’t because the elderly slave didn’t have time to teach them how to fly. But he was hopeful that they would find freedom one day. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason this book was selected was because it tells a different story of slavery. It talks about African slavery and the folklore that they had wings. This book can be used when writing imaginative writing. Have the children make up their own folklore and see what they came up with. Teachers can even use this for art since the pictures are so beautiful. Have them create their own picture book using no words.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fradin, Judith B. and Fradin, Dennis B. (2013) **The Price Of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up To Slavery.** Walker Children’s. 48 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is about three runaway slaves who split up after they crossed the Ohio River. The two men went from safe house to safe house ending up settling in Oberlin, Ohio. A little while later, the two men’s owner found one of them named John and took him to a hotel. While riding to the hotel, John saw a person walking and shouted to him that he was being kidnapped but it appeared that he was ignoring him. Only to find out later that he did in fact hear him and got a mob to help rescue John from the slave owners. He was rescued and stored at a professor’s house for a few days and then disappeared. The men who helped his escaped were put in jail for a few months and the-were-abouts of the three slaves are still unknown. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I chose this book was because it talks about helping others when they are in need of help. Teachers can use this book while teaching about helpers and how sometimes there are negative effects but they still wanted to help a friend in need. Teachers can also do activities when talking about cause and effect.
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//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 20pt;">Teacher Resources // v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wallner, Alexandra. (2005) **Abigail Adams.** Holiday House. 32 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is about a woman named Abigail and her beliefs when it comes to slavery and women’s rights. When she was a little girl, all she wanted to do was to learn about everything the world had to offer and go to school, but her mother said she wasn’t allowed. She was told that he job is to stay home and do housework. Abigail took upon herself and read many books in her father’s library. When she was 20 years old she married a man named John Adams, who later became president, because he respected her feelings and also knew a lot about the world. Later on, they had a few kids, and went through a lot of events. Abigail wanted John to tell George Washington to give women more rights and to free the slaves. Nothing happened on either of those topics but Abigail tried her hardest to help the slaves by teaching some of them to read since they weren’t allowed to go to the local schools. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I selected this book because it does talk about a lot of events that happened in history such as the Boston Tea Party, the first few presidents getting elected, and the Revolutionary War. This is a great book to read to the kids to introduce to them about these historical events all told during the time around slavery.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blashfield, Jean F. (2012) **A True Book Slavery in America.** Children’s Press. 48 pages. Private collection. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book tells a lot of great facts about slavery. It talks about how slaves were treated during slavery. It shows maps of the states that slavery took place and has lots of photos as well. The Underground Railroad was very important to the slaves and it talks about how Harriet Tubman helped lead the slaves to freedom. It talks about the slave trade and how slaves actually got to America and how slavery was finally ended in the United States. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I selected this book was because it has nothing but true facts about slavery. Teachers can use this during their history or social studies unit when talking about slavery. They can also use it when talking about important people who impacted slavery such as Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Teachers can have true false questions and have their students answer them and try to find the answers in the book. They could also create their own little true fact book on any topic and keep it in the classroom so that all the students can learn about many things.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stein, R.C. (2008) **Escaping Slavery on the Underground Railroad.** Enslow Pub Inc. 128 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book talks about how the slaves used the Underground Railroad to escape from slavery to find freedom. The Underground Railroad was used to get them from the south to the north and it freedom thousands of slaves. Harriet Tubman was one of the main people to lead the slaves to the north. It talks about the safe houses that the slaves would stay in and they were about ten to twenty miles apart and mostly in farmhouses. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I selected this book was because it has so much detail about how the underground railroad was conducted, how it was used, and how it was created. I feel like this can give a lot of information to the teachers and helps them to make activities for the children to do. Children can make maps of the railroad and this can tie into geography.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kamma, Anne. (2004) **If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America.** Scholastic Inc. 63 pages. Private collection. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book gives children an insight on how it was to be a slave in America. It talks about their voyage coming from Africa and how thousands went to America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Puerto Rico and even Mexico. It goes on about how the living conditions of the house they lived in were, what kind of work they did, and how they were sold off and torn away from their loved ones. It talks about the Underground Railroad and the helpers who lead slaves to freedom. Also, it talks about the start of the Civil War, why it happened and that it ended slavery. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason I selected this book was because it can give young children an idea what it was like during this time period. Like the book mentioned no slaves are alive today since slavery happened so long ago, and so it’s sort of hard to ask them how it was like. All we have is the stories that have been passed on to today’s generation. So I feel like this book can really assist teachers on giving a realistic explanation of slavery and have a lot of questions answered. Teachers can use this when talking about cultures, races food, geography, and history. Since this book touches so many topics, teachers have unlimited activities that they can do and use this book as a reference.
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v <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">McMissack, Patriacia C. (2011) **Never Forgotten.** Schwartz & Wade. 48 pages. Maricopa Public Library. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Never Forgotten is a book filled of poems. It has poems about slavery and what they went through. They talk about how it feels to be captive, sent away, and sold into slavery. Each poem is about a different story that the slaves went through and how they felt. This book also brings in the elements earth, fire, water, air, and wind while still talking about slavery. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason this book was selected because it’s a poem book about slavery. It tells so many different story’s but it all ties in together. Teachers can really use this when talking about poetry and have them write their own poems. You can talk about literature as well with this book.
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