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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
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Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
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Billie Sims comes face to face with the horrors of racism when a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders travels through Anniston to protest segregation on buses. The town greets the Freedom Riders with violence and sets their bus on fire. Billie is left shocked by the actions of the town's people she thought she knew. Will Billie stand up and fight for what is right?
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English
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"Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
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