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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 1
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Five adventures in Bonny's busy four-year-old life with her three sisters and brothers in the days of copper-toed shoes.
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 4
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
As winter arrives and the local school closes until summer, the Fairchild children continue their schooling in the parlor with the oldest, Althy, teaching.
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 3
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the youngest Fairchild sisters, Bonnie and Debby, as they spend their summer in various moneymaking enterprises in the hill country of early 1900s' Kentucky.
Author
Series
Fairchild family story volume 2
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s. Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother's controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace by withholding her love. Grace does penance in every...
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Judd Markley is a hardworking coal miner who rarely thinks much past tomorrow until he loses his brother--and nearly his own life--in a mine cave-in. Vowing never to enter the darkness of a mine again, he leaves all he knows in West Virginia to escape to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's 1954, the seaside community is thriving, and Judd soon hires on with a timber company. Larkin Heyward's life in Myrtle Beach is uncomplicated, mostly doing volunteer...
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Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his friend, Floyd Collins, becomes trapped in a cave in Kentucky in 1925, ten-year-old Arly places himself in great danger while trying to help with the rescue operation.
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