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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an infernal motley crew of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. The dramatic trial offers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
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English
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"A riveting tale told with care and expertise." —David Simon, creator of The Wire
The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans.
In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the...
The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans.
In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the...
6) Hot blooded
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English
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First One Dead Body. . .
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day's work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two?
Then Another . . .
A second hooker's corpse turns up. Samantha's ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious claiming...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism,...
10) Cadillac jukebox
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Series
Language
English
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Best-selling author James Lee Burke returns to delight audiobook listeners who crave fast-paced crime fiction with Cadillac Jukebox. This thunderous and introspective audiobook-the ninth book of the award-winning series-pits the earthy and robust Dave Robicheaux against forces of law and power far beyond his control. When a racially-motivated murder nearly three decades old churns back to the surface, Robicheaux is confronted by mob bosses, corrupt...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 82 min.)
Language
English
Description
Mardi Gras, drag royalty and a glittering civil rights revolution - where else could these elements come together but in New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage with contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams tells the story of New Orleans' gay Mardi Gras across five decades and uncovers the history of the first civil rights for gay Americans.
16) The agony house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 100 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of...
17) Ruby Bridges
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
50 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
19) Ruby Bridges
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Examines the life of the the first African American girl to attend an all-white elementary school in the south.
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Series
Quick response research report volume 195
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 PDF (16 p. : ill. ; 1,719 KB)
Language
English
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