Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Summary: Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIN

Jackson, Linda Williams

Summary: In 1967, when his teacher loans him a copy of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown is amazed to encounter a family worse off than his own and wonders if happy endings only come in books.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAC