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(0)Toni Morrison
Author
Publisher
Plume Book
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
4) Home
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2015.
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison"s text--a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era of "separate but equal" schooling. Remember is a unique pictorial and narrative journey that introduces children to a watershed period in American...