Lift as you climb : the story of Ella Baker by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 729809 Available

Dewey: 323.092/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.2 LG Lexile: 730 AD F&P: X

Genres:

Subjects: Baker, Ella,|d1903-1986 Civil rights workers - United States - Biography African American women civil rights workers - Biography Race relations

Summary: A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker.

Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2017)

BTSB #: 729811 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-16   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Loving, Richard Perry - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Loving, Mildred Jeter - Trials, litigation, etc. - Fiction Novels in verse Interracial marriage - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Virginia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

Struttin' with some barbecue : Lil Hardin Armstrong becomes the first lady of jazz by Powell, Patricia Hruby 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2018)

BTSB #: 729827 Available

Dewey: 781.6509/BAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900

Genres:

Subjects: Armstrong, Lil Hardin,|d1898-1971 Armstrong, Louis,|d1901-1971 Jazz musicians

Summary: Lil Hardin and her man, Louis Armstrong, were musical royalty-inventing a new kind of jazz sound.