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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In a novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe. From the day she was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe lived a life that was often defined by others. This verse novel revisits Marilyns often traumatic early life of foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, teen marriage, and follows her into a hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom that brought with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities"--WorldCat.
4) Beauty mark
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before she was Marilyn Monroe--Hollywood icon, blond bombshell, and easily one of the most recognizable faces of the twentieth century--she was Norma Jeane, a young woman whose early life was filled with traumatic experiences: foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, and teen marriage. Despite all she overcame, her hardwon, meteoric rise to stardom was besieged by exploitation, pill dependency, and depression, eventually culminating in her tragic...
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