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(0)Mildred Pitts Walter
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Language
English
Description
Based on the 1957 Little Rock school integration, two teenage girls-one white, one black-are swept up in the fear and prejudice of their divided southern town It's Sophia Stuart's last year at Chatham High-only now the pretty, popular high school senior will be sharing classes with nine black students. The Stuart family has differing views. Her dad and older sister's husband believe everything should stay segregated. Her brother, Burt, who lost an...
Author
Language
English
Description
Emma's dreams of popularity and academic success go up in smoke when she's transferred to a less prestigious high school. Twelfth grader Emma Walsh is one of the lucky few African Americans at exclusive Marlborough High School. She is the only black student on the student council, and she's just been elected to the National Honor Society. Now, the Golden Slippers will invite her to participate in their annual debutante ball. Graduation will be followed...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Martha is torn between her love for her myth and superstition and her hunger for knowledge and adventure The superstitious folks of Blue Isle believe that a child born in a storm is born to trouble. But fourteen-year-old Martha only wants to go to high school, not end up making quilts and married to some local island boy. Getting an education means leaving the island, where she was raised by her grandmother Titay-and where she's...
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Publisher
Distributed by University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.
10) Have a happy
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Upset because his birthday falls on Christmas and will therefore be eclipsed as usual, and worried that there is less money because his father is out of work, eleven-year-old Chris takes solace in the carvings he is preparing for Kwanzaa, the Afro-American celebration of their cultural heritage.
11) Suitcase
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Despite his love of drawing and his feelings of inadequacy as an athlete, sixth-grader Xander "Suitcase" Bingham works to become a baseball player to win the approval of his father.