Capital days : Michael Shiner's journal and the growth of our nation's capital by Bolden, Tonya 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 130482 Available

Dewey: 975.3/BAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 1140

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Subjects: Shiner, Michael,|d1805-1880 African Americans Freedmen Slaves Washington (D.C.)

Summary: Tells the story of Washington, D.C., through the story of an African American man, Michael Shiner, who lived there from approximately 1805 to 1880 and who kept a journal, excerpts of which are interspersed throughout the heavily illustrated text.

My name is James Madison Hemings by Winter, Jonah 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 956915 Available

Dewey: 973.4/BAges: 5-9   
AR: 4.9 LG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 910 AD F&P: V

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Subjects: Hemings, Madison,|d1805-1877 Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826 - Relations with women Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826 - Family Hemings, Sally Freedmen Slaves

Summary: A powerful picture book about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings.