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5) Dry bones
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
This traditional African-American spiritual song is a fun introduction to the parts of the body, as well as the concept of the skeleton.
9) Whole World
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated version of the well-known song, featuring the relationship between people and the natural world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Surveys the music of African American slaves and tells the story of The Fisk University Jubilee Singers. Illustrated with archival prints and photographs and appended with words and music to seven songs, this account reveals spirituals as an invaluable and unique history of American slavery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
This inspirational book encapsulates African American history and invites conversations at all levels. Carole Boston Weatherford’s riveting text and Frank Morrison’s evocative and detailed paintings are informative reminders of yesterday, hopeful images for today, and aspirational dreams of tomorrow. Stretching more than four hundred years, this book features pivotal moments in history, such as the arrival of enslaved people in Jamestown, Virginia,...
13) We could fly
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
15) Amazing grace
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Bill Moyers tells the story of this song, one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language, through the people who have sung it. He also tells the story of John Newton, once the captain of an English slave ship, who came to faith after surviving a storm at sea in the eighteenth century and wrote the lyrics which across distances of time and culture have become, when set to music, a courier of the spirit to millions of people.
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