Lizan Mitchell
2) Holy mayhem
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
They've been laid off, they're broke, and their faith is really being tried. But dedicated Mount Kneel Down Baptist Church members Patience Kash and Joy Karry figure now is the perfect time to pursue their other true calling as private detectives. And if that means putting up with their thug-wannabe cousin Porky's delusions while hilariously interfering with their famous detective godson Percy's investigations, it's still a heaven-sent opportunity....
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
4) Tiptop cat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A cat finds the courage to climb again after a frightening fall from his owner's apartment balcony.
5) Thunder Rose
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Pat G'Orge-Walker-who routinely sells out her one-woman Sister Betty stage show-is the queen of gospel comedy. When the unlucky in love Birdie Tweet meets Afro-Latino hunk Lyon Lipps, she thinks her romantic fortunes may change. But then she shows his picture to the other ladies of the Oh Lawd Why Am I Still Single church group, and several recognize Lyon as the con artist who previously seduced them. So the ladies decide it's...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Gospel comedy queen Pat G'Orge-Walker regales listeners with the hilarious antics of Sister Betty and her South Carolina friends, big-hearted Ma Cile and redhaired Sister Connie Fuse. But things don't really start shakin' until on-the-make Deacon Laid Handz, manhungry Sister Carrie Onn, and conniving Reverend Knott Enuff Money get into the act. And yet for all of its rollicking humor, this book is brimming with profound and, at times, pointed truths...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When gambling debts and greed enter into the Butler household, Pierce Butler decides to host the biggest slave auction in American history and breaks a promise by selling Emma, his most-valued slave and caretaker of his children--a decision that brings about unthinkable consequences.