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Alex Cross novels volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written--a novel called Trial. As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt...
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, "Scout", returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming becomes bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
6) Safe at home
Author
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The spring of 1953 started out like any other for sportswriter Jack Hall. He and the rest of the small Southern town of Whitney eagerly awaited the magical first pitch that would open the Bobcat's season. But air-conditioning now offers a new incentive to spend summer nights at home. And I Love Lucy has captured America's imagination. The Bobcats are not only losing money, they may lose their careers as well. In a crunch to win more fans, the Bobcats...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day, and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees,...
11) The friendship
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African-American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
12) Pug Sheridan
Author
Publisher
Autumn Leaves Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A spiritual odyssey set in the rural South of a century past, Pug Sheridan depicts a young woman's arduous quest for identity and rdemption. More than a typical coming-of-age tale, the novel explores the natures of love, friendship, loss, and racism and reveals how childhood choices affect our adult lives in unexpected and sometimes wondrous ways.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 23
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Daytona, Florida, from Statesboro, Georgia, after the Ku Klux Klan burns down her father's business, eight-year-old Celeste Key becomes one of the first students at Mary Bethune's new school for African-American girls.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Explores the explosive tensions of the South in the mid-1950s through the prism of a young girl's friendship with her black maid and the currents of violence, infidelity, and corruption that run beneath the polite surface of her family's life.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
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 African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self- respect they need to survive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.