Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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By Crowe, Chrisc2003., Juvenile, Phyllis Fogelman Books Call No: 364.152 3 09762 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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By Suskind, Ron1999, c1998., Broadway Books Call No: B Edition: 1st trade paperback Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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By Suskind, Ron1999, c1998., Broadway Books Call No: Realistic Fic Suskind Edition: 1st trade paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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[2019]., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: 920 SCH Edition: Young reader's edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of suggested acts of kindness.
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[2019], Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: 974.7 1 043 092 2 Edition: Young reader's ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "[Adapted from the original book], eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of suggested acts of kindness"--Provided by publisher.
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2012, c2011., Howard Books Call No: HI-INT 920 SCH Edition: 1st Howard Books trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents the real life story of how Laura Schroff, a successful sales representative living in Manhattan, and Maurice Maczyk, a homeless eleven-year-old panhandler, developed an unlikely friendship in 1980s New York that has lasted for over thirty years and enriches both their lives to this day.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: 920 HARRISON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Learn about different African American men who have changed the course of history.
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-- Emmett Tillc2003., General, PBS Home Video PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 973.921 MUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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c2008., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: On my own historySummary Note: Tells the story of James Forten, a free African-American boy from Philadelphia who was taken prisoner aboard a British warship and later on a British prison ship until the end of the war.
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2021., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MEMOIR NF JOH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A memoir of Black non-binary writer and activist George M. Johnson's childhood in New Jersey, growing up with their brother and two cousins, all under the supervision of their larger-than-life grandmother.
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2023., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: B Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This is a memoir of George's boyhood in New Jersey, growing up with their brother and two cousins, all under the supervision of their larger-than-life grandmother"--