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Last Chance in Texas

John Hubner

Journalist John Hubner reveals the aggressive methods used by the Giddings State School in Texas to rehabilitate criminal youths.

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Friday Night Lights

Chronicles the 1988 season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas.

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A Room On Lorelei Street

Mary Pearson

To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must g

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The Tequila Worm

Viola Canales

Sofia finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to her family in the barrio community of McAllen, Texas.

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My Father's Summers

Kathi Appelt

A series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond.

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The Wake of the Wind

J. California Cooper

Looks at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families in the post-Civil War South.

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Ferrell V. Dallas I.s.d.

Karen L. Trespacz

Discusses the case in which three students in the Dallas Independent School District were suspended from school in 1966 because of their hairstyles.

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Canyons

Gary Paulsen

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

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Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man.

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Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man.

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