Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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c2010, Primary, Philomel Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the back of the bus, an African American child watches the arrest of Rosa Parks.
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-- Great cow race2005, Juvenile, Graphix Call No: 741.5 973 Edition: 1st Scholastic ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Phoney Bone rigs the Spring Fair's annual Great Cow Race by putting Smiley in a bovine disguise and convincing everyone to bet their livestock on the mystery cow, and Fone Bone finds himself in a one-cousin battle with the rat creatures.
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2002, Juvenile, Henry Holt Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1957, when her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, Alabama, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.
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1990, Dial Call No: Fic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During a heavy rainstorm, a white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus.
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2011, Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
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2000, c1998, Primary, Puffin Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Picture puffinsSummary Note: Seven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an African-American nun comes to teach at her parochial school.
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2010, Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sam, having moved with her mother to Jackson, Mississippi, after the death of her father, finds the conservative 1960s values of the town clashing with her family's liberal views and struggles to navigate difficult relationships and understand segregation.
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2002, Juvenile, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: F Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
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-- Zora & me2011, c2010, Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.