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(0)Helen Hemphill
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
2) Runaround
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Kentucky in the 1960s, partly as revenge against her older sister for publicly embarrassing her, eleven-year-old Sassy decides to make the handsomest boy in the neighborhood her boyfriend, but first she has to find out what makes a boy like a girl, and how to know when he does.