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A Summer of KingsOver the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to li |
FIC NOL |
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A Summer LifeThe poet recreates the life he experienced as a Chicano growing up in California's Central Valley. |
B SOTO |
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Silent DancingThe author tells of her bilingual/bicultural childhood. |
B ORTIZ COFER |
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MockingbirdChronicles the life of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee, exploring her personality and discussing such topics as her youth in Alabama; her satirizing of bigotry in campus publications during |
B LEE |
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Monkey TownWhen her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-y |
FIC KID |
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Going SoloAs a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II. |
B DAHL |
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Freedom WalkersPresents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott and the key persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses. |
323.1196 FRE |
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FirebirdMark Doty discusses what it was like to grow up as a homosexual, how his parents and siblings reacted to the news, and how he came to terms with his sexuality. |
B DOTY |
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The Endless SteppeDuring World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. |
B HAUTZIG |
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African-american PoetsPresents important works of criticism on ten African-American poets, including Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Derek Walcott, and provides bibliographies and short biographies. |
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