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541) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and accomplishments of Rosa Parks, discussing her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and the impact of her actions on the civil rights movement.
542) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--Provided by publisher.
"Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 7
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting--one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
547) Don't let them bury my story: the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in her own words
Author
Publisher
Mocha Media Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with poignant clarity. From the terror of her childhood as a seven-year-old fleeing the burning streets of Greenwood to her current role as a 109-year-old family matriarch seeking justice for the affected families,...
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