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1) Being Clem
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.
Clem can make anybody, even his grumpy older sisters, smile with his jokes. But when his family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago disaster, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. Soon Clem...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
Lymon's father is, for the time being, at Parchman Farm--the Mississippi State Penitentiary--and his mother, whom he doesn't remember all that much, has moved North. Fortunately, Lymon is being raised by his loving grandparents. Together, Lymon and his grandpops share...
5) Vixen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1923 Chicago, seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody rebels against her upcoming society wedding by visiting a speakeasy, while her Pennsylvania cousin, Clara, hides similar tastes and her best friend, Lorraine, makes plans of her own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better. Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry--probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. "--
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Franny Steinberg knows there's powerful magic in laughter. She's witnessed it. With the men of Chicago off fighting WWII on distant shores, Franny has watched the women of the city taking charge of the war effort. But amidst the war bond sales and factory shifts, something surprising has emerged, something Franny could never have expected. A new marvel that has women flocking to comedy clubs across the nation: the Showstopper. When Franny steps into...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While running a con in 1934 Chicago, sixteen-year-old Joe splits his time between Eddie, a handsome flirt, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the queer life of the big city, but as danger closes in, Joe must decide who he wants to be before disappearing.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her best friend Lydia disappears, Piper Sail goes searching for answers in the dark underbelly of 1924 Chicago, uncovering deep corruption that may lead back to her affluent neighborhood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Bad things happen in the heat, they say. Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moments notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago summer of 1968. She is a...
15) Mendel
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"To honor his deceased mother, BJ joins Mendel High's track team and excels, but before he can cash in on any scholarship offers, his father's thuggish past catches up with them and an old enemy comes seeking revenge"--
16) Music and murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"July, 1926. When Elizabeth Fairchild's beau, Fred Wilkins, suggests going to Chicago's Sunset Club to see Louis Armstrong, the world's best trumpeter, in action, she faces a dilemma. The burgeoning jazz scene in the city is proving to be controversial, associated with gangsters and scandal. Even her dear friend Susannah refers to jazz as 'the devil's music'. Intrigued, Elizabeth brushes her fears aside and visits the club with Fred, but an explosion...
17) Rosa, sola
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Aladdin ed.
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
508 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
1921, Chicago. Nelly Sawyer is the daughter of the "wealthiest Negro in America," whose affluence catapulted his family to the heights of Black society. After the unexpected death of her only brother, Nelly becomes the premier debutante overnight. But Nelly has aspirations beyond society influence and marriage. For the past year, she has worked undercover as an investigative journalist, sharing the achievements and tribulations of everyday Black people...