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African American teenagers United States Fiction African Americans Segregation United States Fiction Cliques (Sociology) Fiction Competition (Psychology) Fiction Dance Fiction Family life Florida Fiction FICTION / Coming of Age Florida Fiction Racism Fiction Reformatories Florida FictionWhitehead, 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 to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 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 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,...
Format: text
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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.00As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Whitehead 2019Ziegler, Maddie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Harper loves to dance and is a rising star in Connecticut when her parents move her to Florida and she must prove herself to The Bunheads in order to compete.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEZiegler, Maddie
Summary: Harper McCoy, twelve, joins the school musical hoping to get past "dancer's block," but her Dance Starz teammates are not pleased, especially since they will soon compete against their biggest rivals, The Belles, in Regionals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018