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Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
ISBN-13: 9780807576724
CCBC Choices 2015
Best History/Non-fiction Picture Book of 2014, The Huffington Post
2015 Jefferson Cup Overfloweth
2016 Arnold Adoff Early Readers Poetry Award, Honor BookTake a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary.
With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art and culture at home, at church, and in the community.
Books, music lessons, and art classes expanded their horizons beyond the narrow limits of segregation. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
Target age group 4 to 8
Best History/Non-fiction Picture Book of 2014, The Huffington Post
2015 Jefferson Cup Overfloweth
2016 Arnold Adoff Early Readers Poetry Award, Honor BookTake a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary.
With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art and culture at home, at church, and in the community.
Books, music lessons, and art classes expanded their horizons beyond the narrow limits of segregation. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
Target age group 4 to 8
- CategoryJuvenile Fiction
- Age Group6 to 8 yrs
- Grade LevelK-2
- LanguageEnglish
- BindingPaperback
- Theme 1Social, Personal & Family Topics
- Theme 2Biography & Autobiography
- Detailed (BISAC) Subject/ThemePerforming Arts
- Awards
- AuthorWeatherford, Carole Boston
- Lexile Level560 AD
- AR Level3.5
- DeweyE
- PublisherAlbert Whitman & Company
- Publication Date1/4/2024
- Pages32
- Dimensions0.3 H × 9.8 L × 7.8 W
- Case Qty130