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MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH READING INCENTIVE BOOK LIST GRADES 3 - 5
Please Choose From The Following Books
THIRD GRADE
I am Enough – Grace Byers 2018
Tiny Stitches, The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas–Gwendolyn Hooks 2016
Preaching to the Chickens, The Story of Young John Lewis- Jabari Asim 2016
The Friendship Code – Stacia Deutsch 2017
Under the Same Sun – Sharon Robinson 2014
Follow the Drinking Gourd – Carl Meister 2012
EllRay Jakes Stands Tall – Sally Warner 2016
Henry’s Freedom Box – Ellen Levine 2007
Frederick Douglass (The Lion Who Wrote History) – Walter Dean Myers 2017
Who Was Coretta Scott King? – Gail Herman 2017
FOURTH GRADE
How Sweet the Sound, The Story of Amazing Grace – Carole Boston Weatherford 2018
Kinda Like Brothers – Coe Booth 2014
All About Madam C.J. Walker – A’Lelia Perry Bundles 2018
The Book Itch, Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore – Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 2015
A Storm Called Katrina – Myron Uhlberg 2011
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy – Tony Medina 2018
The Buffalo Soldiers – Cliff Mills 2015
Schomburg, The Man Who Built a Library – Carole Weatherford 2017
The Youngest Marcher, The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist – Cynthia Levinson 2017
FIFTH GRADE
42 Is Not Just a Number, The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero – Doreen Rappaport 2017
LeBron James – Marie Morreale 2015
The Parker Inheritance – Varian Johnson 2018
Marley Dias Gets it Done and So Can you – Marley Dias 2018
A Spy Called James, A True Story of James Lafayette Revolutionary War Double Agent – Ann F. Rockwell 2016
Who is Michelle Obama? – Megan Stein 2013
Pathfinders, The Journey of 16 Extraordinary Souls – Tonya Bolden 2017
Betty Before X – Ilyasah Shabazz 2018
Josephine, The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker – Patricia Powell
Ruby Lee & Me – Shannon Hitchcock 2016
Source: 8 Lists of 100 African American Books by School Grades, K-8