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311492
Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)


Publication Date: 08/27/2019

BTSB #: 311492 Available

Dewey: 786.2092/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 5.5 LG RC: 11.9 3-5 Lexile: 1260 NC F&P: P

Subjects: Carreno, Teresa,|d1853-1917 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865 Pianists - United States - Biography Gifted children - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography


Summary: The story of Teresa Carreno, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln.


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Escape of Robert Smalls : a daring voyage out of slavery by Jones-Radgowski, Jehan 

BTSB Prebound(Capstone Editions, 2019)


Publication Date: 09/15/2019

BTSB #: 581258 Available

Dewey: 973.8092/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 740

Subjects: Smalls, Robert,|d1839-1915 Slaves - South Carolina - Biography Escapes - South Carolina African Americans - South Carolina - Biography African American sailors - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - African American participation


Summary: During the Civil War, an enslaved man pretending to be the captain of a Confederate steamship escaped to the North on a stolen boat with 15 other slaves.


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Manos que bailan : como Teresa Carreno toco el piano para el Presidente Lincoln by Engle, Margarita 

PaperbackSPANISH(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021)


Publication Date: 05/04/2021

BTSB #: 311495 Available

Dewey: 786.2092/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 7.8 LG

Subjects: Carreno, Teresa,|d1853-1917 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865 Pianists - United States - Biography Gifted children - Biography Spanish language - Reading materials United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography


Summary: The story of Teresa Carreno, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln. In Spanish.


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One real American : the life of Ely S. Parker, Seneca Sachem and Civil War general by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020)


Publication Date: 10/27/2020

BTSB #: 163296 Available

Dewey: 974.7004/BAges: 10-14   
F&P: Z+

Subjects: Parker, Ely Samuel,|d1828-1895 United States.|bArmy - Biography Seneca Indians - Kings and rulers - Biography Generals - United States - Biography Public administration Native Americans - North America - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography


Summary: Biography of Ely S. Parker, a member of the Seneca, an Iroquois nation, who was an attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. Raised on a reservation but schooled at a Catholic institution, he learned English at a young age. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and was the primary draftsman of the terms of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. He eventually became President Grant's Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to hold that post.


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Robert E. Lee : the man, the soldier, the myth by Miller, Brandon Marie 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2019)


Publication Date: 04/16/2019

BTSB #: 646478 Available

Dewey: 973/BAges: 10-17   
Lexile: 1060 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Lee, Robert E.|q(Robert Edward),|d1807-1870 United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography Southern States - History


Summary: Who exactly was Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate general? Lee was a son, a soldier, a father, and a husband, but he is also a myth and icon--both hated and revered as a symbol of the segregated South.


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379362
Robert Smalls [Tales Of The Talented Tenth Volume: 3]by Gill, Joel Christian 

Paperback(Chicago Review Press, 2021)


Publication Date: 05/03/2021

BTSB #: 379362 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 12-16   
Lexile: 290 HL

Subjects: Smalls, Robert,|d1839-1915 - Comic books, strips, etc Planter (Steamship) United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African Americans - South Carolina - Biography Slaves - South Carolina - Biography Ship captains - United States - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography Beaufort (S.C.) - Biography


Summary: Tells the true story of the enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the C.S.S. Planter, escapes to freedom, goes on to become a first-generation Black politician, and makes history by writing and leading the passage of legislation that led to the United States' first free and compulsory public school system. In graphic novel format.


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