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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole family-and to be someone.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
4) Yankee girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
5) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African Americans to vote.
6) Copyboy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
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