After barn mice make a collar with a bell to warn them when Marmalade the cat is approaching, Smart Mouse must devise a way to safely put the collar on her in this retelling of a Aesop fable.

3) Flossie and the Fox

Author

McKissack, Pat

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only, Picture

Description

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A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.

4) Amistad: the story of a slave ship

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Step into reading. Step 4 book

Description

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Amistad was a ship that carried African people to be sold into slavery. In 1839, the brave Africans on that ship fought back.

5) Dear America: Look to the hills :the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl

Series

Dear America

Pub. Date

2004.

Description

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Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.