Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the early 1730s, James Oglethorpe, a British politician, founded a colony in what is known today as Savannah, Georgia. This book will take an in-depth look at what life was like in colonial Georgia. During what is called the Trustee Period, the colony faced economic issues, political and civil unrest, and several wars. Primary sources help readers to connect with important events in history. Age-appropriate text makes essential curricular topics...
Author
Series
Georgia trilogy (Eugenia Price) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Anne Couper, daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, and her love for a British lieutenant during the War of 1812.
Author
Series
Georgia trilogy (Eugenia Price) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new edition of the best selling third volume of the Georgia Trilogy, presented by Turner Publishing
For three decades, Eugenia Price has entranced millions of readers with her sweeping, romantic chronicles of life in the American South. In all its beauty, glory, infamy, and tragedy, Ms. Price's South is at once mysterious and heartbreakingly familiar.
Beauty from Ashes is the long-awaited concluding volume in Ms. Price's Georgia Trilogy, preceded...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike Spirited Abigail Banes dreams her newly married life coastal Georgia will be lived amid spreading magnolia trees, where lovers walk and whisper along blossom-lined paths. But her dreams are shattered when a fatal accident claims her husband, Eli, leaving her sole proprietor of their rice plantation-and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Singleton family's fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri--along with the other girls at Atlanta's elite Washington Seminary--lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties. But when tragedies strike, Perri is confronted with a world far different from the one she has always known. At the insistence of her parents, Mary "Dobbs" Dillard, the daughter of an itinerant preacher,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the S
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical no
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1851, thirteen-year-old Cecilia has her eyes opened to the horrors of slavery when she accompanies her ornithologist uncle on an expedition in search of the rare "Scarlet Ibis," and watches as he shows slaves the way to the Underground Railroad.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers sets his sights on the jewel of the South-Savannah-and brings it to life in his inimitable style. Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies -- attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie -- struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the conquered city...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Georgia's Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932, Rae Lynn Cobb, disguised as a man, hides out from those who would wrongly accuse her for murdering her husband and struggles to survive harsh, brutal conditions with the help of two individuals with their own tragic pasts.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, he'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her...
14) Where shadows go
Author
Series
Georgia trilogy (Eugenia Price) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After giving up a career as a British Royal Marine, John Fraser and his wife Anne return from London to Cannon's Point, her family's plantation on St. Simons Island, Georgia in the nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the history, geography, climate, plants and animals, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, entertainment, and people of Georgia, as well as general facts about the state.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called 'The People Could Fly.' In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
19) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were separated after the lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request