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Freedom Bird

Freedom Bird
Author: Jerdine Nolen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481402226

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“Powerful storytelling and immersive art.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Vibrant writing and magical realism lift this story to one of triumph.” —Publishers Weekly “Nolen's lively prose style recalls the richness of the oral tradition in this tale of triumphant courage and abiding hope.” —The Horn Book “A moving choice for children’s collections.” —Booklist A Parents’ Choice Silver Award Recipient In this inspiring story in the tradition of American black folktales, an enslaved brother and sister are inspired by a majestic and mysterious bird to escape to freedom in this dramatic and unforgettable picture book. There was nothing civil about that war. They should have called it what it was: a big, bad war. Brother and sister Millicent and John are slaves on Simon Plenty’s plantation and have suffered one hurt and heartbreak after another. Their parents had told them old tales of how their ancestors had flown away to freedom just as free and easy as a bird. Millicent and John hold these stories in their hearts long after their parents are gone. “Maybe such a time will come for you,” their parents said. Then one day a mysterious bird appears in their lives. The bird transforms them and gives them the courage to set their plan into motion and escape to freedom.


Freedom Bird

Freedom Bird
Author: Donnell B. Jones
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2009-06-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1462827357

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Drafted in the army at the age of eighteen while living in Phoenix Arizona, Donnell completed his army training in the Deep South in middle sixties. Then shipped to Vietnam where he was assigned to The 2nd and 18th Infantry Unit with the 1st Army Division, on an operation assignment as his platoon was separated from the main unit and pinned down behind enemy lines. Had to fight their way out and back to their main unit. Then transferred to 2nd & 16th Rangers attached to the 1st Division. In a ranger unit and forced to be a sniper. Then lift in the jungle and reported dead and missing too his mother and family. Wounded in the jungles of Vietnam somehow he found his way back and was rescued by another unit. Med Evace. to Zama hospital near Tokyo Japan where he recovered from his wounds, his military records were lost and they did not know who he was for weeks. Then assigned to a radio and TV station located Soul Korea (AFKN) where he finished his military tour Before returning to the States.


Bird Uncaged

Bird Uncaged
Author: Marlon Peterson
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1645036502

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From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child, the specter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the aftermath of immense trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. At nineteen, Peterson was charged and later convicted. He served ten long years in prison. While incarcerated, Peterson immersed himself in anti-violence activism, education, and prison abolition work. In Bird Uncaged, Peterson challenges the typical “redemption” narrative and our assumptions about justice. With vulnerability and insight, he uncovers the many cages—from the daily violence and trauma of poverty, to policing, to enforced masculinity, and the brutality of incarceration—created and maintained by American society. Bird Uncaged is a twenty-first-century abolitionist memoir, and a powerful debut that demands a shift from punishment to healing, an end to prisons, and a new vision of justice.


Freedom Bird

Freedom Bird
Author: Chris Bunch
Publisher: Allan Cole
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1608362787

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DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, GIs who managed to survive their tour of duty in one piece—more or less—were flown home in chartered airliners. They called those planes “Freedom Birds.” This is the story of three young men—from wildly different backgrounds—who meet on such a plane and make a pact to spend three days together in San Francisco. Their goal: to spend every cent of their mustering out money in a party of a lifetime. And they’ll get more than they bargained for: because when they land, it is July 1967—in a time that would come to be known as “The Summer of Love.” It’s a place and time where each young man will have to confront the ghosts who followed them home from the jungles of Vietnam and contemplate a future none of them had imagined.


Free as a Bird

Free as a Bird
Author: Lina Maslo
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0063063255

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The inspiring true story of Malala Yousafzai, human rights activist and the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from debut author/illustrator Lina Maslo. Celebrate the power of one young woman speaking up for change with Free as a Bird. This beautiful nonfiction picture book is perfect for sharing at home or in the classroom. When Malala Yousafzai was born, some people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, some believed girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice, she would not keep quiet. Malala traveled around the world to speak to girls and boys, to teachers, reporters, presidents, and queens—to anyone who would listen—and advocated for the right to education and equality of opportunity for every person. She would shout so that those without a voice could be heard. So everyone could be as free as a bird. Free as a Bird is the inspiring true story of a fearless girl and the father who taught her to soar. A unique way to celebrate the power of a young woman, and to honor a father who strives to let his daughter shine.


Free Bird

Free Bird
Author: Greg Garrett
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780758201409

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Upon learning about the death of his father, Clay Forester, still grieving over the deaths of his wife and son, sets out to attend the funeral--a journey that forces him to face the past and forgive his father as well as himself.


The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)
Author: James McBride
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594486344

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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war.


Calico Girl

Calico Girl
Author: Jerdine Nolen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481459821

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A Kirkus Best Book of the Year “A poignant and hopeful glimpse at the past for today’s curious readers.” —Rita Williams-Garcia, Newbery Honor author From the award-winning author of Eliza’s Freedom Road comes the powerful tale of a slave girl’s triumphant journey to freedom with her family during the Civil War. Twelve-year-old Callie Wilcomb and her family are enslaved, and the Civil War gives them hope that freedom may be on the horizon. On May 23, 1861, the State of Virginia ratified their vote to secede from the Union. In Virginia, a window was opened where the laws of the land no longer applied. Because of the Contraband Law, enslaved people no longer had to be returned to their owners, granting them a measure of protection and safety. With the possibility of Callie and her family escaping their bonds forever, Callie is eager to learn and become educated and hopes to teach others one day. Through hardship and loss—with love and strong family ties—Callie proves that freedom is in her stars.


I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird

I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Author: Susan Cerulean
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0820357383

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Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.


A Home for Bird

A Home for Bird
Author: Philip C. Stead
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1596437111

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Vernon the toad takes the silent Bird on a journey in hopes of finding Bird'shome. Full color.