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Summary: In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2024
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Summary: "On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the 'whites only' car, but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip, in the last story in a trilogy about the author's life growing up in the segregated South"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANDevoto, Pat Cunningham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVMayhew, Anna Jean.
Summary: In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie, traveling with her family and her family's black maid Mary Luther--who has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect--encounters racial tension and tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mayhew 2011Copies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019