Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764227025
Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.
Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764227033
Shenandoah Sisters Book 4, the sequel to The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart. Two young women have kept their family plantation safe for more than a year, but now their dreams are coming to an end.
Author : Michael R. Phillips
Publisher : Center Point Pub
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781585476688
Following the Civil War, Katie and Mayme, a young slave formed an unlikely partnership. They've managed to managed to hang onto their friendship - and the plantation- while hiding the fact that they are war orphans. But what will happen to them when Katie's uncle decides to claim Rosewood as his own?
Author : Karen Katz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250811155
A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.
Author : Joy McCullough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0735232121
"Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."—The New Yorker "I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."—Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one A William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist 2018 National Book Award Longlist Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. He will not consume my every thought. I am a painter. I will paint. Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence. I will show you what a woman can do. ★"A captivating and impressive."—Booklist, starred review ★"Belongs on every YA shelf."—SLJ, starred review ★"Haunting."—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★"Luminous."—Shelf Awareness, starred review
Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0425289761
The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.
Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764227009
Two girls, brought together amid the turmoil of the Civil War, are forced to break down prejudices to survive. Shenandoah Sisters Book 1.
Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764227017
Two very different girls, one the daughter of a slave, the other the daughter of a plantation owner, must fight to stay allive--and together--after being orphaned by the Civil War.
Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101994932
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.
Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1933517646
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
