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2) Glory be
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Despondent sixteen-year-old Malcolm finds new strength and courage as he is transported between his family's modern-day Mississippi farm and the life of his ancestor Cedric Johnson, a congressional aide in post-Civil War America.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
Author
Series
J.D. the kid barber volume 2
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, to find stardom online"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Dr. Frank Hafner is an archaeologist working on excavating a new-found Native American temple site in the Mississippi Delta. He's also too handsome for his own good, and a bit of a flirt. Oddly enough, it's the first quality that gets him in trouble when he discovers the ritualistic murder of one of his archaeological crew. When Coleman...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"In Carolyn Haines' The Devil's Bones, spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a thorny murder while away on a girls' weekend. Sarah Booth and Cece are in Lucedale, Mississippi, where the newly-pregnant Tinkie is treating her friends to a girls' weekend at the fabulous new Bexley B&B. The facials, organics, food, and fitness coaches are supposed to be phenomenal, but Tinkie's primary aim is to attend the Sunrise Easter Services...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Set in the years 1950-1970 in a changing America and London, follow[s] two married couples - ministers and academics - whose intricate bonds of faith and friendship, jealousy and understanding, are tested by the birth of an autistic child"--
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences...
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