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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jeffernson High School ... Linda Hairston is the daughter of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration ... Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another"--Jacket.
3) Paperboy
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Series
Johnny Cannon volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1961 Alabama, twelve-year-old Johnny tries to keep his promise to look after his disabled Pa when his older brother leaves for military service, but secrets from the past, Cuban politics, and racial tensions would make the task challenging even for his hero, Superman.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Sooner or later, we're all gonna be okay." That's what Dani's Grandma Beans used to say. But that was before she got Alzheimer's. Lately, Dani isn't so sure Grandma Beans was right. In fact, she isn't sure of a lot of things, like why Mac Richardson suddenly doesn't want to be her friend, and why Grandma Beans and Avadelle Richardson haven't spoken in decades. Lately, Grandma Beans doesn't make a lot of sense. But when she tells Dani to find a secret...
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