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Logan sagaTaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride -- no matter how others may...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TAYMafi, Tahereh
Summary: A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURChamberlain, Diane
Summary: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment is to restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chamberlain 2020Chee, Traci
Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHEMorley, Isla
Summary: "A luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of "the Blue People of Kentucky" that probes questions of identity, love, and family. In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio-a writer and photographer-are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORAdams, Alice
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADAGratz, Alan
Summary: December 7th, 1941: Everything explodes. That morning, Frank and Stanley are aboard the battleship the USS Utah when Japanese planes zoom overhead and begin dropping bombs on the ships below. Chaos ensues as everyone scrambles to dive for safety. Frank and Stanley realize what's happening: Japan is attacking America! The war has come to them. As the boys fight to make their way home amidst the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Lee, Harper.
Summary: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon 2006
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2006Forbes, Curdella
Summary: "[This novel] tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance. The narrative begins with Moshe's birth in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORLeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021