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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."
23) Wild inferno
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 p. ; 24 ;cm.
Language
English
Description
Sandi Ault's compelling Wild Mysteries starring Federal Agent Jamaica Wild are infused with intimate details of Pueblo culture. Sent to rescue a man called Grampa Ned from a wildfire on the Southern Ute Reservation, Jamaica is surprised to find a severely burned firefighter separated from his crew. He mutters something cryptic, and soon she's on the trail of an even greater crime.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
43 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A drive South becomes dangerous for 'Lois and her family. 'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny...
26) The garden angel
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a Southern, city-swallowed town, The Garden Angel tells the story of two women and their unlikey friendship. Cutter Johanson is plucky and eccentric, nostalgic about her family's once glorious past. She has her hands full warding off potential buyers from the dilapidated homestead she is determined to keep. Though the neighborhood has changed, even grown shabby, Father Bob's Home for Retarded Men across the street has become a sort of extended...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty and irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Ovella rejoices as her community comes together to raise money and build a much-needed school in the 1920s, with matching funds from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and support from Professor James of the Normal School.
31) Going North
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl and her family leave their home in Alabama and head for Lincoln, Nebraska, where they hope to escape segregation and find a better life.
32) The listeners
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
146 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Turner, deputy sheriff of a small town near Memphis, confronts trouble in the persons of the sheriff's long-lost son, who arrives in what appears to be a stolen car, and old friend Eldon Brown, who is a suspect in a murder he does not know if he committed.
36) The land
Author
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
North American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Depicts people from the upper and lower regions of the world who view each other as being very different until they turn themselves upside down.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin 'the Beast' Butler ... When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must...
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