Loretta Little looks back : three voices go tell it by Pinkney, Andrea Davis 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08487 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Family life - Mississippi - Fiction African Americans - Mississippi - Fiction Sharecroppers - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Mississippi - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.

My Vicksburg by Rinaldi, Ann 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00678 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Family life - Mississippi - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Vicksburg (Miss.) - History|ySiege, 1863 - Fiction

Summary: During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.

Sky full of stars by Jackson, Linda Williams 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

BTSB #: 484987 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 780

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Racism - Fiction Family life - Mississippi - Fiction Mississippi - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.

Yard war by Kitchings, Taylor 

Paperback(Wendy Lamb Books, 2015)

BTSB #: 521438 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 770 F&P: V

Genres:

Subjects: Racism - Fiction Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Football - Fiction Neighbors - Fiction Family life - Mississippi - Fiction Nineteen sixties - Fiction Jackson (Miss.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.