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2) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 1
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When she is confronted by an...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Stricken by polio, Paige Dunn, a woman of remarkable free spirit, beauty, and intelligence, continues to raise her daughter, Diana, with the help of her caretaker Peacie, in a novel set against the backdrop of Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1964.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Convergence saga volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events ... Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides...
9) 54 miles
Author
Publisher
Agate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning look at race and violence in 1960s America that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching and relevant stories"--
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