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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
1 kit ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
10 books (313 pages), 1 book (417 pages), 1 audiobook (9 CDs, 11 hr.), 1 discussion guide ; in a cloth bag 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
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