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1) Beloved
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English
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Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Morrison's first novel. The story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, set in the author's hometown of Loraine, Ohio. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue to be as beautiful and beloved as the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941 her life does change, but in painful, devastating ways.
3) Home
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing 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. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories...
5) Jazz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
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Language
English
Description
God Help the Child -- the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment -- weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love....
7) A mercy
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1680s America, 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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
78 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Morrison's archival collection of photographs depicting historical events surrounding school desegregation serve as inspiration to this fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived during the era.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
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