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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
3) Beloved
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Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
c2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Banned Books throughout American History
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
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Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
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-- People) Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard,...
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith
“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she meant it. The subject...
“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she meant it. The subject...
5) A mercy
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English
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In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...
7) Home
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English
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The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister-- Frank is an angry, broken veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. He is shocked out of his apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and taker her back to the small Georgia town them come from and that he's hated all his life.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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A version of Aesop's Fables finds two friends, a grasshopper and an ant, who each spend their time differently preparing for winter in a tale of friendship, betrayal, and survival.
9) Sula
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Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xvii, 174 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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-- Sula is a work that overflows with life.
10) Love: a novel
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Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xi, 201 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
11) Jazz
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
-- “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning -- People
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