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Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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One of the most popular books of all-time, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been both venerated and vilified since it was first published in 1885. The story of a young abused boy on the run and his friendship with a runaway slave is about loyalty, compassion, and doing what is right.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African-American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self- respect they need to survive.
11) For Lamb
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
13) The land
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and an 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.
14) Glory be
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
15) Sugar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son. Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to...
16) Sources of light
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
19) The well
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Mississippi, in the early 1900's, ten year old David Logan's family generously share their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and thirteen-year-old Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north, following in the footsteps of her mama and her aunt. But for now, she's living with Ma Pearl and Papa, her grandparents, who are sharecroppers on a cotton plantation. A few towns over, a fourteen-year-old African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When the killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes...