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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
©2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1913, thirteen-year-old pencil factory worker Mary Phagan was found murdered at her workplace in Atlanta, Georgia. One targeted suspect was Jewish factory superintendent Leo Frank. All of the inborn prejudice against Jews rose up in a feeling of satisfaction, that here would be a victim worthy to pay for the crime. Though the case was mishandled at every turn, Leo Frank was convicted. But did he commit the crime?
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Looks at the events of the "freedom summer" of 1964, the disappearance and murder of civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, and the federal civil rights case against several local whites.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a while woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: October 2022 Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
Description
Adapted for young readers, this true story follows a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit and how he transformed not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, until his release in 2015.
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