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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, which asked both black and white volunteers to travel throughout Mississippi, registering black Mississippians to vote, establishing "Freedom Schools" for black children, and organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Along a magic-saturated stretch of the Mississippi River near Blue Wing, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Claire and her bullying cousin Duke are drawn into an adventure involving Bodacious Deepthink the Great Rock Troll, a helpful fairy, and a group of trolls searching for their fathers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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The Mississippi River is the largest river in North America. It is 2,340 miles (3,766 kilometers) long. That is as long as 322,000 school buses parked end to end. Discover more in Mississippi River, one of the titles in the Natural Wonders of the World series.
6) Glory be
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.
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Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be canceled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
11) Yankee girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
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Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
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This book looks at the 1862-63 battle for Vicksburg through the eyes of three children: ten-year-old Lucy, the daughter of a Vicksburg merchant; eleven-year-old Willie, the son of a minister; and twelve-year old Frederick, the son of Ulysses S. Grant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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