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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever." The story tells of a Black family's experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances...
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years, all the Whitfield kids have come home to spend the holiday with Ma'Dere and her boyfriend Joe. And each has brought plenty of baggage along with them. As the lights are hung and the tree is trimmed, secrets are revealed and ties are tested. But as their lives converge again, they join together to rediscover and celebrate the wonderful gift of family.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The second installment in the thought-provoking Woman Thou Art Loosed film franchise. A husband and wife find themselves in the midst of a crisis after their young daughter is kidnapped. The couple must race to find their child who is believed to have been abducted by a serial killer who symbolically murders his victims "on the 7th day."
7) Fences
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The final season ups the ante with a multicharacter tour-de-farce, while completing Laura and Eddie Winslow's journeys to maturity. Its wedding bells as Laura accepts, but with dueling proposals from Steve and his clone, Stefan, the question is, for whom? Meanwhile, Myrtle makes her final play for Eddie, Steve's cousin, Original Gangsta Dawg wreaks havoc, and Halloween signals the return of evil dummy Stevil now joined by Carlsbad a disturbing, diminutive...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a mission to maintain a successful marriage in a city full of temptation, Bakari & Imani are trying their best to get on the same page. But just when things seem to be getting back on track, secrets and lies threaten to tear down everything they've built.
11) Soul food
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.
12) I will follow
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Maye is a success. Hot career. Hot boyfriend. But when her world is turned upside down by tragedy, she must struggle to keep her balance... chronicles a day in the life of a woman at a crossroads, and the twelve people who help her move forward into a brave, new world"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Laugh and cry along with some of writer-director Tyler Perry's greatest characters, including hilarious Hattie, uproarious Aunt Bam, and Perry himself as lively matriarch Madea. Spanning over a decade of Perry's stage productions, these nineteen plays bring together his singular and heartfelt stories of love, pain, and joy in one unforgettable collection.
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
Description
From Beverly Hills to the Chicago 'burbs, mayhem and hilarity seem to follow The Blacks wherever they go. After surviving a night of terror on the West coast, (not-so) best-selling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home in the Windy City where he hopes to find the peace and quiet he needs to write his new book. But when an eccentric neighbor moves in next door, Carl becomes convinced that the man is a vampire trying to take...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen, Madea has two troubled nieces to deal with. Lisa is engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker and Vanessa is finding it difficult to open herself to the affection of a bus driver/artist Frankie because of childhood abuse. Wreaking havoc on both of the girls's lives is their mother Victoria.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The sixth season of the groundbreaking cultural phenomenon Empire is filled with drama, shocking surprises and more jaw-dropping moments. The drama is about a family dynasty set within the glamorous and sometimes dangerous world of hip-hop music. With Cookie and Lucious at the center of the series, the couple have taken viewers through the highs and lows that come with fame and fortune. - Amazon.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and kids, Dre's efforts to enlighten are exhausting. Forced to...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Questions of identity and destiny rise to the surface in the sixth season of this family sit-com. As the antics of Steve Urkel threaten to steal the show in a fit of nerdtastic slapstick, the Winslow clan shows it has more than enough heart to handle sharing the show with a bona-fide pop culture phenomenon. This is immediately evident in the season opener, a two-parter that switches around the previous season's 'Urquelle' sequence and places Carl...
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