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Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tillet's cultural criticism blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in...
Author
Publisher
Disney - Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few. The process was very complicated and expensive. Until 1856, when a boy named William Henry Perkin invented a new way. While testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria, he found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic PURPLE"--
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
9) Upstate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This program is read by Black Panther star, Chadwick Boseman
"Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?"
So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990's in New York. Antonio and Natasha's world is turned upside down, and their young love is put to the test, when Antonio
11) Hello, red fox
Author
Language
English
Description
Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals. The illustrations are designed to demonstrate the concept of complementary colors.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is a purple person? Great question. I mean, really great! Because purple people always ask really great questions. They bring their family, friends, and communities together, and they speak up for what's right. They are kind and hardworking, and they love to laugh (especially at Grandpa's funny noises)! A purple person is an everyday superhero! How do you become one? That's the fun part! Penny Purple will lead you through the steps. Get ready...
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Harold and George's time-traveling Purple Potty lands them in an alternate universe where everything seems delightful, but evil lurks just beneath the surface, and leads to a battle between Captain Underpants and his own evil twin. --
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities. Brigid really, really loves markers. She convinces her mom to buy a new set of 500 washable coloring markers, then 500 coloring markers that smell, then 500 super-indelible-never-come-off-till-you're-dead-and-maybe-even-later coloring markers. Which markers do you think she uses when she colors on herself?...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet the Markers! They love to color. But Purple Marker colors everywhere--even outside the lines. When the other markers call his creativity a mistake, it's up to Pencil and Eraser to help Purple discover how making mistakes and making art go hand-in-hand. This hilarious and clever picture book allows Pencil and Eraser to show Purple Marker--and the rest of us--how to turn our messes into successes and do what makes us happy.
Author
Series
Perfectly princess volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Isabel Dawson, who thinks purple is the best color in the whole world, decides to go on a quest to show her brothers that she is just as good as they are.
20) The Cuban affair
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character--US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing...