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Champions on the Bench

The Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars

by Weatherford, Carole Boston & Jenkins, Leonard

Story based on the discrimination faced by the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Stars when the white teams refused to play them in the series tourname...

The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela

A Tale from Africa

by Kessler, Cristina & Jenkins, Leonard

In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told th...

Langston's Train Ride

by Burleigh, Robert & Jenkins, Leonard

Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The...

I've seen the promised land

the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

by Myers, Walter Dean & Jenkins, Leonard

Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've Seen the Promised Land

The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Myers, Walter Dean & Jenkins, Leonard

Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Good Night for Freedom

by Morrow, Barbara & Jenkins, Leonard

Hallie discovers two runaway slaves hiding in Levi Coffin's home and must decide whether to turn them in or help them escape to freedom. Includes historical no...

Tituba

by Miller, William L. & Jenkins, Leonard

Story of Tituba, a West Indian slave who was unjustly accused of witchcraft at the outset of the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials.

Malcolm X

a fire burning brightly

by Myers, Walter Dean & Jenkins, Leonard

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Malcolm X

A Fire Burning Brightly

by Myers, Walter Dean & Jenkins, Leonard

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Sunflower Island

by Greene, Carol & Jenkins, Leonard

A young girl sees a sidewheeler run aground and over many years describes how the river makes the remains of the wreck into an island and then washes it away a...