Burg, Ann E.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURBeattie, Ann
Summary: "Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEASummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007