Alex Haley
1) Roots
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
Description
After eleven years of research to uncover the facts of his heritage, Haley shares the saga of an American black family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself
6) Queen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This fictionalized account of Haley's family follows the life of the daughter of a black slave and a white plantation owner in the late nineteenth century South.
7) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates how a series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were instrumental in inciting the California gold rush.
14) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
15) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Training day: For a rookie cop staying on the right side of the line that separates cop from criminal will be the most challenging thing he has ever done, because his senior partner is an undercover narc, meaner than any of L.A's mean streets.
The pelican brief: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
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