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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's funeral that she and her sister, Yanne, have lived their entire...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Examines Rosa Parks and the influence on her life that led to her arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, and discusses her continued involvement in the civil rights movement.
1085) The color purple (2023)
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Language
English
Description
Introduces Effa Manley, the first women inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, from her childhood in Philadelphia to her groundbreaking role as business manager and owner of the Newark Eagles baseball team.
1089) Flygirl
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In a world where it was commonplace to see signs that read "whites only" or "Jews not allowed, " William Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, the eldest son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother. Janet Langhart, an African-American, was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana by her single parent mother, a Southern Baptist. These two people, from different regions, races, and religions, are both witnesses to and targets of the social tensions of the...
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides a portrait of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman best known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at the beginning of the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.
1098) Good hair
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Comedian Chris Rock tackles the very personal issue of hair, and how attaining good hair can impact African Americans' activities, relationships, wallets, and a self-esteem. Engages in frank, funny conversations with haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as featuring interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Ice-T, Raven Symone, and more.