COLD WAR and CiVil Rights Era EBooks
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A Night Divided
Gerta's father and brother have just left East Berlin to seek an apartment for the family in the West, when the Berlin Wall is erected over the weekend. Overnight the family is divided and neither side can leave. The government is in control of their lives now. One Crazy Summer
Three sisters are sent to California to spend the summer with their long lost grandmother who wants them to attend a Black Panther Camp. Watch Book Trailer HERE! Inside Out & Back Again
In 1975, 10-year-old Ha and her family must leave Vietnam as the Communists take over her home city of Saigon. Ha ends up moving to Alabama where she struggles to adjust to her new life. (Told in Free Verse) |
Penny from Heaven
It's 1953 and about to be 12-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing’s that easy in Penny’s family. (This book will make you laugh and cry.) Chasing Orion When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies. |
The Red Umbrella
14-year-old girl Lucia's life is turned upside down when she becomes part of the secretive Operation Peter Pan, a planned exodus of more than 14,000 children, whose parents send them by themselves from Cuba to the United States to escape Fidel Castro's communist revolution in Cuba. Clean Getaway
Recently suspended 11-year-old Scoob decides to skip asking his father’s permission to go across the country with his Grandma in her RV. Along the way, his Grandma reveals secrets to Scoob about the way life used to be. Brown Girl Dreaming
In vivid poems, Jacqueline Woodson shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. |
The Watsons Go To Birmingham 10 year old Kenny and his family visit their grandmother in Alabama and while there, witness a church bombing. |
Night on Fire
It is 1961 and Billie is a 13-year-old white girl living in the deep south when the Freedom Riders come to town, and she watches as bus is mobbed and set on fire. ...Try this book if you liked The Lions of Little Rock |
Full Cicada Moon
Mimi is in seventh grade in 1969, and moves from California to Vermont. Her mom is Japanese, and her dad is black, and no one in the little Vermont town looks like them. (Told in Poems) |
On Gabriel's twelfth birthday, he gets a new bike--and is so excited that he accidentally rides it right into the path of a car. Fortunately, a Black man named Meriwether pushes him out of the way just in time, and fixes his damaged bike. As a thank you, Gabriel gets him a job at his dad's auto shop. Gabriel's dad hires him with some hesitation, however, anticipating trouble with the other mechanic, who makes no secret of his racist opinions.
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When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall—but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything—including her only way home—to stop the process.
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