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1) The help
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
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Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
2) The chamber
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
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In his Chicago law firm a young lawyer named Adam Hall asks to work on the case of Sam Cayhall, Klan member sentenced to death for a 1967 bombing in which two people were killed. Adam's firm has handled the case on a pro bono basis for years, but the case is all but lost and time is running out: within weeks Sam will finally go to the gas chamber. Why in the world would Adam want to get involved?
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Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times are a-changing. Every year, the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same this year: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...
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2022.
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"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When she is confronted by an...
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McWhorter's magisterial narrative tells the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, from the '50s through the '60s. In the tradition of such histories as Parting the Water and Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home" documents the real story of integrating the South. It tells the story of the city called Bombingham, from the fifties through the sixties. It focuses on the black freedom fighters as well as those who resisted them--country-club...
6) The help
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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"In the only picture book version of Dr. King's speech in print, two-time Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson has illustrated its most iconic works with magnificent paintings, with the speech in its entirety included in the back of the book." -- jacket flap.
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America in the King years volume 1
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Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.
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[2024].
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"For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indominatable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
12) March: Book Two
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March volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
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March volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and...
15) One crazy summer
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Gaither sisters volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
16) March: Book One
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March volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
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For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Bestselling author and journalist Kitty Kelley combines her elegant storytelling with Stanley Tretick's iconic photographs to transport readers to the 1963 March on Washington, bringing that historic day vividly to life for a new generation"--Amazon.com.
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In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on womens all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles for...
20) Four Spirits
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[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
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In the wake of racial tensions in 1960s Alabama, sheltered white college student Stella participates in her first freedom movement and finds her life changed in several ways when she develops friendships with local African Americans.