Toni Morrison
1) A mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Home
Author
Language
English
Description
Written by the author of "Beloved", this novel reveals an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and, finally, his home.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 216
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Four generations of black life in America.
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins,...
4) Beloved
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
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.
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Author
Language
English
Description
Spare and unsparing, 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...
7) Sula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in...
8) Paradise
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this 1983 short story-the only short story Morrison ever wrote-we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they...
10) Tar baby
Author
Language
English
Description
A beautiful African-American woman of privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of man she has dreaded since childhood: uneducated, violent, and contemptuous of her.
11) Love
Author
Language
English
Description
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces - a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial....
12) Jazz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The deep bluesy sadness of this novel wails out of the pages?as expressively as a saxophone," writes Digby Diehl of Toni Morrison's 1993 novel. Set in 1926, at the height of the Harlem renaissance, it follows the lives of the Joe and Violet Vace, who have moved from the South to escape the hardships of segregation. They find a city throbbing with the music that represents both artistic freedom and moral decline. Jazz is story of passion, jealousy,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
Little Cloud does not want to join the other clouds in terrorizing the earth with storms, but grows lonely and longs to look closer at mountains and seas, until Lady Wind makes her dream come true.
15) Jazz
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la decada de 1920, con la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison. Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en an~os, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podran vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los an~os '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Formats
Description
TONI MORRISON INÉDITA
El único y deslumbrante relato de la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, «un gigante de su época y dela nuestra» (Margaret Atwood), con un epílogo deZadie Smith.
«Ella lideraba y nosotros la seguíamos: nos enseñó la belleza del lenguaje y el poder que se desata cuando se unen un gran corazón y una mente feroz».
Salman Rushdie
Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Offers a humorous and insightful look at how children experience meanness and anger in our world...To a child, meanness can have many shapes, sizes, and sounds. The wise young narrator shows that meanness can be a whisper or a shout, a smile or a frown as the list of mean people grows to include parents, siblings, and bullies of several varieties"--
18) Please, Louise
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a gray, rainy day, everything seems particularly frightening and bad to Louise until she enters a library and finds books that help her to know and imagine the beauty and wonder that have been there all along.
19) The big box
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door.
20) Beloved
Author
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
Español
Description
Una madre: Sethe, la esclava que mata a su propia hija para salvarla del horror, para que la indignidad del presente no tenga futuro posible. Una hija: Beloved, la niña que desde su nacimiento se alimentó de leche mezclada con sangre, y poco a poco fue perdiendo contacto con la realidad por la voluntad de un cariño demasiado denso. Una experiencia: el crimen como única arma contra el dolor ajeno, el amor como única justificación ante el delito,...