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1) Savannah
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1983
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
595 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
5) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 797 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age,...