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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial/Fogelman
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers.
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having...
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having...
7) Beloved
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In this riveting, unputdownable legal thriller, a partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing.
Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall, wayward son of a Texas politician, gets himself murdered after a night of booze, drugs, and rough sex, Scott is assigned to defend the
9) Jazz
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
11) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the performer and talk show host, discussing her childhood of neglect and her rise to the top of the entertainment world.
12) Small steps
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
13) Through my eyes
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1974]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1963
Language
English
Description
Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington is freed when he is nine years old. To help support his family, he then works as a salt packer, coal miner, and house servant. All the while, he longs to become educated and to educate others. Poverty, racism, and other obstacles stand in his way. Will he overcome them all, or will the many barriers prove stronger than his unwavering determination?
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, Jade would rather participate in the school's Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
19) Song of Solomon
Author
Publisher
Knopf/Vintage
Pub. Date
2004, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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