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2) Francie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the 16-year-old boy whom she tutors is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brutal legacy of cruelty and hate is awakened in the bayou. When Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeing for Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana family, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return...
6) In the fall
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Lent's astonishing debut novel, In the Fall, is already creating a sensation. It has been chosen as a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, preempted for paperback for six figures, and acquired by leading publishers around the world. In the Fall is the extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the forbidden, transcendent love affairs that fuel its members over the...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
From Donna VanLiere-the author of the beloved Christmas Hope series-comes a moving novel of faith, family, and destiny.
You might think that what you're about to read has a great deal to do with my father and growing up poor in east Tennessee, but there is so much more-what captured my heart was the hope of belonging and the dream of family. The woman I am has a great deal to do with that ninth year of my life. It started out as any other year, nothing...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Miss., tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of polio, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit--with the support of her tough-talking caregiver, Peacie.
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
12) Response
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
Author
Series
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.
Author
Series
Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 2
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into
20) Riot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York Cit
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