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Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Language
English
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Language
English
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Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year- old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
92 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
Author
Series
Language
English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
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