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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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.
2) Glory be
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Gloriana faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her, but while she struggles to understand the shift in her relationships with her sister--who is about to enter high school--and her best friend, Frankie, Gloriana witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In Stillwater, Missippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Change is coming and Cassie Logan will be part of it. Cassie, no longer a feisty eight year-old, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world. This journey takes her from the Logan family home in Toledo to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and ultimately, home to Mississippi to be part of the voter registration drive of the 1960s. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
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