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Sylvan Recommended Reading List:
National Black History Month Reading Recommendations (February)
Elementary School
| Kindergarten: | God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday A Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David A. Adler and Robert Castilla |
| Grade 1: | Big Jabe by Jerdine Nolan Just the Two of Us by Will Smith |
| Grade 2: | I'VE SEEN THE PROMISED LAND: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther Kind, Jr. by Walter Dean Myers By My Brother's Side by Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Robert Burleigh and Barry Root |
| Grade 3: | Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan |
| Grade 4: | Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History by James Haskins and Melanie Reim Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges and Margo Lundell |
| Grade 5: | A Pride of African Tales by Donna L. Washington The Black Cowboys by Gina De Angelis |
Middle School
| Grade 6: | Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance by Stephen P. Hardy Women of Hope: African-American Women Who Made a Difference by Joyce Hansen |
| Grade 7: | POWERFUL WORDS: More than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans edited by Wade Hudson PROMISES TO KEEP: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson |
| Grade 8: | The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words by Milton Meltzer Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa by Hazel Rockman |
High School
| Grade 9: | HARLEM STOMP! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers |
| Grade 10: | The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems by Langston Hughes Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth |
| Grade 11: | The Color Purple by Alice Walker Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington |
| Grade 12: | A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
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