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47

author: Mosley, Walter
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: slavery, african americans [X], plantation life, freedom, magic, georgia [X]

Numbering All The Bones

author: Rinaldi, Ann
In 1864 the Civil War is moving toward an end but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the the most difficult time of her life.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

My Name Is Sally Little Song

author: Woods, Brenda
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780

Lives Of Our Own

author: Hewett, Lorri
After her wealthy parents divorce, Shawna returns with her father to the small Georgia town where he grew up, and there she experiences new attitudes toward race relations, learns something shocking about her father's past, and discovers a surprising link with one of the "popular" white girls at school.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: race relations, interracial dating, african americans [X], schools, georgia [X]

Trembling Earth

author: Siegelson, Kim L
In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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Julian Bond

author: Jordan, Denise
A biography of the African-American activist and politician who has been on the cutting edge of civil rights reform since the 1960's.
920
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: bond, julian, african americans [X], civil rights workers, legislators, georgia [X]

Down In The Piney Woods

author: Smothers, Ethel Footman
The joys and frustrations of family life are portrayed through the eyes of Annie Rye, the ten-year-old daughter of a black sharecropper.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630

The Third Life Of Grange Copeland

author: Walker, Alice
An African American tenant farmer flees Georgia for the North. Years later, he returns home to face his wife's death, his son's imprisonment, and a last chance at personal salvation.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Divine Match-up

author: Thomas, Jacquelin
Living in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, glamorous Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison learns important lessons about marriage, relationships, and responsibility.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Divine Secrets

author: Thomas, Jacquelin
While Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison is staying in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, she faces difficult choices about keeping secrets that might be harmful to others, and how--or whether--to accept her mother's boyfriend into her life.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dysfunctional families, secrets, african americans [X], christian life, georgia [X], secrecy, families

Home

author: Morrison, Toni
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Ludell

author: Wilkinson, Brenda Scott
A young African-American girl experiences the pleasures and the pains of growing up during the 1950's in a small Georgia town.
FIC
year: 1980
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans [X], schools, school stories, georgia [X], afro-americans

Ludell And Willie

author: Wilkinson, Brenda Scott
As Ludell and Willie prepare to graduate from their high school in a small southern town, they experience events that alter their plans for the future.
FIC
year: 1977
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: schools, afro-americans, georgia [X], school stories, african americans [X]

A Net To Catch Time

author: Banks, Sara H.
Depicts a day in the life of a boy on one of Georgia's barrier islands as sequenced by the Gullah terms for time.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: gullahs, african americans [X], sea islands, georgia [X]

Criminal Injustice

author: Mcnair, Glenn
364.97
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.97
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