He’s startled and thrilled by the danger of a ’gator hunt in the midnight bayou, and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharpwitted, sweet-natured Negro girl. To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules, and tension between the Negro and white communities. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store. Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives. This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Together, Lee and Bayou trek across a hauntingly familiar Southern Neverland, confronting creatures both benign and malevolent, in an effort to rescue Lily and save Lee's father from being lynched. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues-singing swamp monster called Bayou. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into a fantastic and frightening alternate world. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the Depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. And to stay friends, Marlee and Liz are even willing to take on segregation and the dangers their friendship could bring to both their families. But when Liz leaves school without even a good-bye, the rumor is that Liz was caught passing for white. Liz is everything Marlee wishes she could be: she’s brave, brash and always knows the right thing to say. Until she meets Liz, the new girl at school. As twelve-year-old Marlee starts middle school in 1958 Little Rock, it feels like her whole world is falling apart. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2012. The white boy and the black boy encounter danger and suspense while executing a plan to save Poudlum’s family, set Jake onto a river of freedom, and discover a great, yet simple secret of enlightenment. Through Poudlum and Jake, an escaped black convict, Ted learns of evil forces gathering to deprive Poudlum’s family of their property and livelihood. Where the fields meet, twelve-year-old Ted meets Poudlum, a black boy his own age, who teaches him how to endure the hard work while they bond and go on to integrate the field. In rural south Alabama in 1948, whites picked on one side of the cotton field and blacks on the other. But what will it cost him to know?ĭunagan, Ted M. Then he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer, and Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." When Emmett's body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to find out who could do such a thing. But before long Hiram begins to feel that the small town is not the place he remembers from his childhood. At first Hiram is excited to be visiting his favorite grandfather in Greenwood, Mississippi. Through tragedy, she finds the voice to lead a civil rights march all her own, and maybe change the future for her people.Ĭrowe, Chris. On garden picking day, Addie Ann’s family is sorely tested. Addie Ann knows Old Man Adams left his land to the white and black people to plant a garden and reap its bounty together, but the mayor denies it. Then a good deed meant to unite Kuckachoo sets off a chain of explosive events. But when her careless act leads to her brother’s disappearance and possible murder, Addie Ann, Mama, and Uncle Bump struggle with not knowing if he’s dead or alive. In Kuckachoo, Mississippi, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his footsteps by attending the black junior high school.
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