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Enemy Women

Paulette Jiles

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Standing in the Rainbow

Fannie Flagg

Ten-year-old Bobby Smith, son of the local pharmacist and the host of the radio show "Neighbor Dorothy," grows to manhood in Elmwood, Missouri, observing the people and the changes that affect the sma

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Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain uses his insight and wit to explore the issues of slavery, mother/son relationships, justice, and the many shapes of human folly.

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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

The story of a mulatto slave who switches her disconcertingly white baby with the master's son to protect it in a time of strong racial prejudice.

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Cruzan V. Missouri

Bryna J. Fireside

Examines the 1989 Supreme Court case that dealt with whether the family of Nancy Cruzan had a right to remove a feeding and hydration tube from her body.

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Deliver Us From Evie

M. E. Kerr

Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live wi

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Caught in the Act

Joan Lowery Nixon

Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.

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