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[2023]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F CLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching"--From the publisher's web site.
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2011., Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Call No: FIC019000 Edition: Delux ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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c2009., Amy Einhorn Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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c2009., Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
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c2008., Berkley Books Call No: Historical fiction STOCKETT Sto Edition: Berkley trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
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c2009., Amy Einhorn Books Call No: HISTORICAL F STO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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2011., 2 hrs 26, Amazon video Call No: Historical Fiction This is an electronic video available via Amazon. See the Durgee librarian to access this resource. Summary Note: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child.
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By Green, Brunson Columbus, Chris Barnathan, Michael Taylor, Tate Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981- Tyson, Cicely Stone, Emma, 1988- Chastain, Jessica Vogel, Mike Spencer, Octavia Davis, Viola Spacek, Sissy Janney, Allison Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945- Winborne, Hughes Newman, Thomas, 1955- Stockett, Kathryn. Help Dreamworks Pictures Participant Media Imagenation Abu Dhab[2011]., Touchstone Home Entertainment Call No: Literature & Language Availability:0 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
