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Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
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Eugenia Price's unforgettettable story of faith, love, and courage in the old south. Reaching manhood during the tumultous years before the Civil War, independent-minded Horace Gould is the black sheep of his family. Finally, after a seven-year absence, the world-weary young man returns to the plantation and manages to win the heart of lovely neighbor Deborah Abbott, who becomes his bride. Older ladies watch for signs of Horace's "wicked past," but...
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Baseball card adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.
4) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
AD 1300L
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English
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Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side . . .” It's Christmas time . . . The March family has fallen on bad times after the father lost their money. The four March sisters-the nearly perfect ‘little woman' Meg, the tomboyish Jo, the shy but wise Beth, and the artist of the family Amy-are planning to brighten up their Christmas by buying presents while their father is away, fighting the Civil War. Featuring...
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2020.
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"During the Civil War in bitterly divided western North Carolina, Confederate troops execute thirteen men and boys from a rural community opposed to secession. A microcosm of the deep horrors of civil war, the Shelton Laurel Massacre, as it came to be known, pitted neighbor against neighbor, touching every family with violence at their own front door. Told by those who lived it- Confederate and Unionist alike--Keith, who ordered the execution, Polly,...
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