Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Dial Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.
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2006, c2004., Pre-adolescent, Puffin Books Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.
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-- Spellbound2021., Pre-adolescent, Marvel Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Marvel Black Panther.Summary Note: In this sequel to The Young Prince, T'Challa heads back to America to visit his friends, but finds his summer vacation turning into a nightmare when the small town falls under the sway of a charismatic politician.
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c2008., Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.
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c2008., Primary, Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.
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c2008., Hyperion Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her parents decide to move from Connecticut to her father's home town in Alabama just before her senior year of high school, Annie at first resents the change and resists accepting Southern customs, but her grandmother's insistence that she be a debutante brings Annie some surprising discoveries.
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[2014?]., Flux Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "After her best friend Holly jumps off a railroad bridge and vanishes, fifteen-year-old Jane becomes convinced that the desperate, devouring mud creature who arises from the river is Holly, trapped and unaware she is dead"--
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Historical Fiction WILLIAMS-GARCIA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--Publisher's web site.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
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-- Inside out and back again[2012]., Pre-adolescent, Recorded Books Call No: RB FIC LAI Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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-- Inside out and back again.By Lai, Thanhha2017, 2011., General, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION LAI Edition: Harper Classic edition. Availability:15 of 15 At Location(s) Summary Note: Winner of the 2011 National Book Prize for Young People's Literature and 2012 Newbery Medal Honor Book, this stunning and engaging verse novel will captivate readers of all ages. Moving to America turns Ha's life inside out. For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by ... and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Ha and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Ha discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape ... and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
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2023., Adolescent, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: HISTORICAL F MIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion--or worse--from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheavals both in and out of town"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Key, Watt2016., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: JUV001000 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his skills--and bravery--to the test"--
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.
