Miranda Barbee Text Set To locate the books I used for my text set I went to the Teaching Resources

Center in Joyner Library. I looked up books on the computer database that pertained to the civil rights movement and found many great books that would be good for my text set. The different genres that I have are one graphic biography, one fiction, one picture book biography, one non-fiction, and one historical fiction. The original literature circle book is called Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford and it is about the sit-ins in Greensboro NC and Dr. King. The books that I choose in my text set all have to do with events and people that were in the time of the civil rights movement. I have one book that further explains the sit ins, one book on Martin Luther Kind Jr, one book on Rosa Parks, one book on the stories of African Americans, and one book on a childrens point of view of standing up for African American rights. Jeffrey, Gary. (2007). Martin Luther Kind JR: The life of a civil rights leader. New York, NY: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. Summary: This book talks about Martin Luther King JRs life as a young boy up all the way to adulthood. It explains what he went through as a child being an African American and about everything he did to fight for African American rights. Grade Level: Third

Adler, David. (1993). A Picture Book of Rosa Parks. New York, NY: Holiday House, Inc. Summary: This book tells the life of Rosa Parks from when she was a child living with her family to a married adult. It explains what she did during the Civil Rights movement, on the bus that helped change African American rights in the future. Grade Level: Fourth

Pinkney, Andrea. (2010). Sit-In. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. Summary: This book talks about four young college students who sat at a lunch counter in order to make a statement during the Civil Rights movement. Other college students all over American started to join in where ever they were in order to get African American rights. Grade Level: Third

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Johnson, Angela. (2005). A sweet smell of roses. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster books for young readers. Summary: In this book two little girls sneak out of their house during the night to help protest against separation of whites and blacks. They march all over town and then arrive back at their house to find their worried mother waiting for them. Grade Level: Third Grade

Nelson, Kadir. (2011). Heart and Soul: The Story of American and African Americans. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. Summary: This book has twelve chapters in it that explain different events that went on before and during the Civil Rights movement. It explains the hard times of African Americans during this period as well as what they did to get freedom. Grade Level: Fifth Grade