Lynne Thigpen
Author
Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of 'hyperempathy' -- which causes her to feel others' pain as her own -- sets off on foot along the dangerous...
5) Zeely
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth and her brother live on a farm for a summer-and learn a whole new way of living and dreaming Elizabeth likes to invent stories. When she travels to her uncle's farm for a summer, she starts by making up new names for herself and her younger brother: "Geeder" and "Toeboy." As "Geeder" explores the farm on her own and with her brother, she encounters mysteries that capture her imagination, among them a tall, proud woman who looks just like...
6) Godspell
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical based on the Gospel of St. Matthew, set in contemporary New York City.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jamaica doesn't like wearing her brother's old hand-me-down boots to school. She's happy when the tiny hole in the toe gets bigger. Now her mother will have to take her shopping for new boots. She wants to buy some beautiful fuzzy pink ones like her friend Brianna's, but Brianna might think she's copying. So she picks out a pair of fancy cowboy boots. When Brianna tells Jamaica that cowboy boots aren't "in," Jamaica tells Brianna that her boots are...
8) Steal away
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1896, Mary Emmons is surprised when her grandmother takes her along to visit an old friend in Toronto named Bethlehem. Mary has led a sheltered life in New York City, far from hardship and danger. But when Mary meets the ancient woman, the personal history she shares removes the blinders from Mary's eyes, forcing the girl to recognize prejudice and injustice for the first time. As a young girl, Suzanna, Mary's grandmother, is sent to live with...
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To Be a Slave stands apart from other historical accounts of slavery in one extraordinary way: it is told by the slaves themselves. Their stories will tell you what it felt like to be a slave in the United States-to wear shackles on your ankles, to feel whips lashing your back, and to work under the cruelest conditions. From African villages to Georgian auction blocks, from plantation fields to abolitionist hideaways, To Be a Slave brings one of the...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full-screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stand and deliver: A teacher in a Los Angeles barrio inspires his students to excel at math and to pass the Calculus Advanced Placement Test.
Lean on me: A bat-and-bullhorn wielding principal in New Jersey turns a failing school around with his tough love methods.