Readers interested in historical fiction about major events may enjoy the following titles. The American Revolution, written by Joann Grote, features the story of thirteen-year-old Stephen Lankford and his older brother William, as they get involved in the "Sons of Liberty" revolutionary group in Boston in 1773. For more information about Africans who fought their oppressors, consider Suzanne Jurmain's Freedom's Sons: The True Story of the Amistad Mutiny.

When most black Americans had no legal rights, a group of captive Africans challenged the United States Government before the Supreme Court. In 1839, the fiftythree Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad broke out of their chains and took over the ship. Former president John Quincy Adams came out of retirement to argue the Supreme Court case that ultimately set the imprisoned Africans free. Let My People Go: African Americans 1804-1860, written by Deborah Gray White and Earl Lewis, explores...