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History, United States travel and geography, United States history, Social issues, Law and crime, General non-fiction, Travel and geography, Biography
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An account of the thoughts and feelings of children involved in school desegregation. Provides background to the 1954 groundbreaking Brown…
v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision and the movement to eliminate racist laws. For grades 3-6. 2004
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined…
novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard…
said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry. " Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour. . . at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance). . . that a child drowned in the river years ago. . . that there was a plague of robins when she first returned. . . In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.
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General fiction
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On one gray and rainy afternoon, Louise makes a fateful trip to the library. With the help of a new…
library card and through the transformative power of books, what started out as a dull day turns into one full of surprises, ideas, and fun! Grades K-3. 2014.Available copies:
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Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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Little Cloud does not want to join the other clouds in terrorizing the earth with storms, but grows lonely and…
longs to look closer at mountains and seas, until Lady Wind makes her dream come true. Grades K-3 and older readers. c2010. Uniform title: Bundle of sticks.Available copies:
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Biography
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The author chronicles the life of Chloe Anthony Wofford, the only African American girl in her first grade class, and…
tells how she became Toni Morrison. Into the account he weaves highlights from Morrison's career as a writer and teacher, discusses how the black experience influenced her novels, and describes how she received progressively important honors up to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. For grades 6-9 and older readers