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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
Description
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride, for no matter...
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Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be canceled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
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Language
English
Description
This picture book tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination - when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for...
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Series
Boys of San Joaquin volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In Orange Grove, California, in 1951, plans for an upcoming carnival and running away part-time fall by the wayside when twelve-year-old Paolo, his six-year-old brother Georgie, and their ten-year-old deaf cousin Billy become victims of prejudice after Billy befriends a Chinese American girl.