Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

In this New York Times Notable Children's Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, follow the life stories of ten Black men in American history and the legacies they left that forever changed the country.

Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain." This book will be the definitive family volume on the subject, punctuated with dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline, sources, and further reading.

Profiled:

• Benjamin Banneker
• Frederick Douglass
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• A. Philip Randolph
• Thurgood Marshall
• Jackie Robinson
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr
• Barack H. Obama II

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/23/2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 10.60h x 8.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781423142577
Age: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 155785 / Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America


Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Award: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 10/01/2012 pg. 98
Shelf Awareness 11/02/2012
School Library Journal 11/01/2012 pg. 124
New York Times Book Review 11/11/2012 pg. 22
Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2012 pg. 73
New York Times Book Review 11/18/2012 pg. 26
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2012 pg. 33
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2013 pg. 257
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2013 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2013 pg. 107
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2013 pg. 177 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, and With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. Andrea's many picture books include Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, a New York Times best-seller and a Jane Addams Honor Book, which wasillustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.

Brian Pinkney (www.brianpinkney.net) has frequently collaborated with his wife, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Some of their other books include, Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, and Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, for which Brian was awarded a Caldecott Honor. Brian was also a Caldecott Honoree for The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci, and he won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for In the Time of the Drums by Kim L.Siegelson.