The Bluest Eye
Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: african americans [X], girls, bildungsromans, ohio, historical fiction, family, large type books, large print books, bildungsromans, audiobooks, compact discs
Sula
A story set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1050
subjects: african-american women, ohio, african american women, friendship, african americans [X], women, black women, historical fiction, female friendship, city and town life, audiobooks, spanish language, domestic fiction, domestic fiction, audiobooks, family life, electronic books