Rappaport, Doreen

Young Prince Rakoto learns to cope with his father's death.

Based upon the true story of Robert Smalls, a slave who kidnapped a Confederate ship and its weaponry and delivered it to the Union along with several runaway slaves.

Chronicles, through her own reminiscences, letters, speeches, and stories, the experiences of the Yankton Indian woman whose life spanned the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.

Chronicles the experiences of twelve African Americans who struggled to gain dignity and freedom from slavery; includes information on the different forms of slave resistance.

Describes the experiences of African Americans in the South, from the Emancipation in 1863 to the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared school segregation illegal.

A biographical portrait of John F. Kennedy, telling how he overcame childhood sickness and tragedy to lead the United States as president. Includes quotes.

During the Revolutionary War, two young sisters help a group of Boston women get coffee from a greedy merchant.

Chronicles the events of the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965, and includes songs, poems, memoirs, and letters from the period.

Seven true stories about real people whose acts during the American Civil War made them a part of history.

Relates the true story of the Matthew and Mae Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.