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(0)Jenna Lamia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille - a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt Tooti Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order-rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant-and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother-in-law; his restless, sensual wife; and their jealous servant. What no one expects is that Griet's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record...
5) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
1859. When war ignites the nation, Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront. She and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become...
7) The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp. Journalist Nina Siegal, who grew up in a family that had survived the Holocaust in Europe, had always wondered about...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an...
