Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jamey Christoph
When he was a child, Gordon Parks’s all-Black class was told by their white... read more
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- Grade
- PK-5
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2015
Word Count 523
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 180261, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- Art
- History
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Photographers
- African American photographers--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Art
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
- African American photographers
- Photographers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Parks, Gordon
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Photography
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Carole Boston Weatherford
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About the Authors 7
Audio Name Pronunciation with Carole Boston Weatherford
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Author Interviews 7
Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
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Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
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Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
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Bringing STEM / STEAM to Life with Carole Boston Weatherford
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Biography Selection, 2016
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