Bøger af Susan Engle

Susanfxtrt is living the dream with horses. This book covers three parts of her continuing journey. God finds Susan a young unstarted mule. "Oh my!" Three rescue hackney ponies magically appear in her pasture to tame."I thought I could catch anything!" A Missouri Fox Trotter who matches Susan's hair is the third part of this journey. Susan's great dream is to find a Missouri Fox Trotter who will do flying lead changes as she pursues her Parelli Natural Horsemanship Levels program. The day she started looking is the day The Just Right Missouri Fox Trotter was born. Zipping into the age sixty category, the rollicking journey of Susan, the young horse developer, rolls forward to the fabulous goal of a magnificent saddle horse. All ages of readers will be inspired and laugh as Susan and her equines rock along the up and down journey of horsemanship.

"Hazel Scott was a champion for civil and women's rights. Born in Trinidad in 1920, she moved with her family to the United States in 1924, where she played her first professional recital at age 5 and was accepted as a private student to study piano at The Juilliard School, a private performing arts conservatory in New York City, at age 8. By the time she was thirteen, she was being booked for performances as "Little Miss Hazel Scott-Child Wonder Pianist," and soon afterward became an accomplished singer as well. In 1938, she was cast in her first Broadway musical-Sing Out the News. Shortly afterward, she recorded her first solo album-Swinging the Classics: Piano Solos in Swing Style with Drums-and appeared in her first film, Something to Shout About. As her musical and film career grew, she made headlines by standing up for the rights of women and African Americans, and she refused to play for segregated audiences. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the March on Washington in August, 1963, Hazel led a march in Paris, where she was living, in front of the American Embassy. She learned about the Bahâa'âi Faith from Dizzy Gillespie and became a Bahâa'âi on December 1, 1968. She passed away in 1981"--

"John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was a jazz musician who pioneered the style of bebop in the 1940s. This book chronicles Dizzy's life, starting with his childhood in Cheraw, South Carolina and the racial prejudice he faced during this time. The book then recounts how one of Dizzy's teachers saw his talent and encouraged him to play trumpet and how this playing provided an escape from the constant racial prejudice surrounding him and his family. The reader then learns how Dizzy got his start as a musician in the Teddy Hill Band, the impact he made on jazz and bebop, and the many travels around the world Dizzy made before his passing on January 6, 1993. After finishing this book, the reader will gain an appreciation of the legacy of Dizzy Gillespie and the impact he made on jazz, bebop, and music as a whole"--

Robert Sengstacke Abbott: A Man, a Paper, and a Parade is the biography of Robert Abbott, who founded The Chicago Defender, one of the first influential newspapers for African Americans, in 1905. Through the medium of this publication, Robert Abbott was able to uplift and inspire generations of African Americans and to encourage them to fight for equality during a time when many were deprived of basic freedoms and were under the thumb of Jim Crow Laws. Inspired by the descriptions in The Chicago Defender and other newspapers of life in the northern United States, many African Americans journeyed north and found ways to escape the unjust laws that had oppressed them in the southern states. This is the first title in the newly launched Change Maker Series from Bellwood Press. Books in this series are aimed at middle grade readers and tell the stories of dynamic individuals who made a difference by dedicating their lives to bringing about social change.