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1) The help
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin...
5) Homeland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A few years ago, Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and tortured by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. Now a leader of the movement of technologically savvy teens fighting back against the tyrannical security state, he lands a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha resurfaces to give him a thumb drive containing evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy....
6) John Lewis
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Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles the civil rights leader who was active in the Freedom Rides and other major events in the battle against segregation and later became a long-term congressman from Georgia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Voices4 Founder and LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli offers a candid and compassionate introduction to queer responsibility. Eli calls on his Jewish faith to underline how kindness and support within the queer community can lead to a stronger global consciousness. More importantly, he reassures us that we're not alone. In fact, we never were. Because if you mess with one queer, you mess with us all.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned. In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the civil rights struggle heats up in 1967 Texas, two families--one white, one black--find common ground. The white family, from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs, and the black family, from its poorest ward, cross Houston's color line to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of the Baptist minister who supported the use of nonviolent resistance to discrimination and describes his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.
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