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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A large print edition of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", in which eight-year-old Scout Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up tothe 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
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Highway 59 volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
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This New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year from the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, On the Rooftop, is "a powerful tale of racial tensions across generations" (People) that explores the depths of women’s relationships—influential women and marginalized women, healers, and survivors.
In 1924, Josephine is the...
In 1924, Josephine is the...
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book: A series of brutal racially charged murders sets a city on edge in this thriller by a National Book Award–winning author.
A serial murderer dubbed “the Indian Killer” has Seattle living in fear. As he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers, the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension. Then a possible suspect emerges: John Smith....
A serial murderer dubbed “the Indian Killer” has Seattle living in fear. As he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers, the city consumes itself in a nightmare frenzy of racial tension. Then a possible suspect emerges: John Smith....
7) Paperboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
8) Double play
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English
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“Parker pretty much defies category altogether in this deeply felt and intimately told memory tale, which takes place during the historic baseball season of 1947...Fusing this chapter of sports history with a hard-boiled gangster plot and haunting recollections of his own Boston boyhood, Parker fashions a hugely entertaining fiction.”—The New York Times
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball’s color...
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball’s color...
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English
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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Carolina cousins volume 1
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English
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Young former slave Jake Patterson heads north after the Civil War in search of the father he has long resented, meets two young women--one white and one also a former slave--trying to keep a plantation alive, and finds love, but a dangerous secret catches up to him.
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Shenandoah sisters volume 4
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English
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Mayme, a former slave, and Katie, the daughter of a Southern aristocrat, fight to save their home against foreclosure, theft, and an evil-minded relative with ideas of his own during the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Westly is as ready as his caterpillar friends to keep their beautiful territory free of lesser creatures as they await the day they turn into delicate butterflies, but when he finally emerges from his crysalis, he discovers he is vastly different from hisfriends.
13) Out of darkness
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against...
15) New boy
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"In Tracy Chevalier's retelling of [Othello], we are transported to 1970s Washington, D.C., where an 11-year-old black boy arrives at an all-white school. But it's when his attention is drawn to one of the girls in class that the trouble really begins."--goodreads.com
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. There, she struggles with personal and political issues, as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
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Shenandoah sisters volume 1
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English
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Despite being born within a year of each other in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie live in two vastly different worlds, until the Civil War bring death and destruction to Katie's Rosewood Plantation home and Mayme's slave quarters, and the two girls find themselves struggling to survive the war's devastation.
19) Dear Martin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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