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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Reprint of 35th anniversary edition, published 1995, to commemorate the publication of Harper Lee's sequel Go Set a Watchman, published July 14, 2015.
A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
2) Rogue lawyer
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.
4) Kindred
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When a young black woman is drawn 150 years into the past, she doesn't realize that it is only the first of many times she will be called upon to save the life of a Maryland plantation owner who turns out to be her ancestor nor how involved she will become in the lives of the slaves on his plantation.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 206
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern...
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Language
English
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After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into a rich and memorable portrayal of Black women––their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery.
8) Down river
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford...
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English
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Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--struggles with issues both personal and political, involving...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Shocked when her husband leaves, taking all their money with him, Mary Bliss opts to fund her mortgage, expensive teenage daughter, and eccentric mother-in-law's nursing home by staging her husband's death in order to claim his insurance money.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn't want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn't want...
18) The passenger
Author
Series
Passenger volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that...
20) Between, Georgia
Author
Language
English
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Description
Unduly familiar with choosing between sides throughout her lifetime, Nonny Frett finds herself once again caught in the middle between an escalating family feud that began before her birth and the realization of her own dreams.
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