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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
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During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
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Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self- respect they need to survive.
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Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.
4) The well
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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In Mississippi, in the early 1900's, ten year old David Logan's family generously share their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African-American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
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In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
8) The land
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
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After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and an black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
11) Lunch-box dream
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"¿Por qué es la tierra tan importante para la familia de Cassie? Los acontecimientos de un año agitado--el año de los hombres de la noche y de los incendios, el año en que una muchacha blanca humilló a Cassie en público porque era negra--sirvieron para que Cassie se diera cuenta de que tener un lugar propio constituye el alma de la familia Logan. El valor y el orgullo de los Logan se los da la tierra, porque sin importar cuánto los puedan...
13) Going north
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2004.
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English
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A young African American girl and her family leave their home in Alabama and head for Lincoln, Nebraska, where they hope to escape segregation and find a better life.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African-Americans intensifies, residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.
16) Black angels
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G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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Three Southern children, two black and one white, escape from their homes during the horrors of the Civil War and, after meeting in the woods, gradually come to rely on each other as they make their way slowly north, enduring hunger, fear, sickness, and constant danger, before arriving in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.