Hoodoo by Smith, Ronald L. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03566 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   


Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Magic - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Alabama - Fiction Country life - Alabama - Fiction Demonology - Fiction Alabama - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.

Leaving Gee's Bend by Latham, Irene 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2010)

BTSB #: 544520 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: 700

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Quilting - Fiction Quilts - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Alabama - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Ludelphia Bennett, a determined 10-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.