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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
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"Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived. This is the chronicle of the Great Depression in the United States, from the sweeping consequences of the stock market crash to the riveting stories of people and communities caught up in a real American dystopia. Packed with photographs...
902) Negroland: a memoir
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic
Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”
Margo...
Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”
Margo...
903) The clique
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
When new girl Claire Lyons moves to Westchester from Orlando, she immediately finds out that fitting in at the prestigious Octavian Country Day School is going to be a lot harder than she anticipated.
Pub. Date
2008?]
Description
"Focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation" -- http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/statement.htm.
Part I, The greatest story ever told: Denounces the originality of many world religions, arguing they are mainly derived from astrological...
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students. Includes scenes of her lesson being used in a prison setting.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Set in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a true story, this show stars Hudson Yang as hip-hop-loving adolescent Eddie Huang, who, with his family, is adjusting to a new life in suburban Orlando. Faced with new schools, new friends, new neighbors, and new traditions, the Huangs stay true to their family values as they pursue the American Dream.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Set in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a true story, this show stars Hudson Yang as hip-hop-loving adolescent Eddie Huang, who, with his family, is adjusting to a new life in suburban Orlando. Faced with new schools, new friends, new neighbors and new traditions, the Huangs stay true to their family values as they pursue the American Dream.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"An urgent and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed and governmental corruption that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns"--Dust jacket flap.
A pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population of 382 people. Debbie Preece lost her brother to opioid overdose, and was desperate for justice. Joined by a crusading lawyer and a local journalist,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.
Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one of them is dead.
In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain E. Asher, tells
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