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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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English
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The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
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English
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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"Considered an American classic, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain is a bold coming of age story about a clever school boy who loves to make trouble and goes in search for it much too often. In this boisterous tale, Tom Sawyer finds forever friendships, new love, and a tragic secret that leads him into even more trouble than he could ever imagine for himself. Though it was Twain's first novel written by himself, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer's'...
7) The land
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a 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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Modern library volume 351
Pub. Date
[1948]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the events that surround the murder of a white man in a volatile Southern community.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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 7
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
92 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Series
Trailblazer books volume 23
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to Daytona, Florida, from Statesboro, Georgia, after the Ku Klux Klan burns down her father's business, eight-year-old Celeste Key becomes one of the first students at Mary Bethune's new school for African-American girls.
15) The friendship
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
16) Guardian
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Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
129 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching.
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