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2) Darktown
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1948, responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers; they arent allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. But they carry guns, and they must bring law enforcement to a deeply mistrustful community. When black...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vi, 360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white attacker. Although slavery is over, Parsons, Georgia is still...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
Author
Series
Darktown volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Officer Denny Rakestraw and 'Negro Officers' Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including Smith's sister, begin moving into formerly all-white neighborhoods. When Rake's brother-in-law launches a scheme to rally the Ku Klux Klan to 'save' their neighborhood, his efforts spiral out of control, forcing Rake to choose between loyalty to family...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target--a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie's...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
NC 1310L
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in free-verse narratives, Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.
13) Meet Miss Fancy
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed."
14) Night on fire
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
15) Tomorrow's bread
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, churches, and night clubs. There are shotgun shacks and poverty, along with well-maintained houses like the one Loraylee Hawkins shares with her young son, Hawk, her Uncle Ray, and her grandmother, Bibi. Loraylee's love for Archibald Griffin, Hawk's white father...
16) The starplace
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
18) The red rose box
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.
20) The clone codes
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.