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1) Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan, fought for their lives and warned the nation
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Flint, Michigan had been built up, then abandoned, by General Motors. In 2014, as part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Despite the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"
"When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government...
3) Roger & me
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Chronicles "the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. In his quest to discover why GM would want to do such a thing, filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to meet the chairman, Roger Smith, and invite him out for a few beers up in Flint to 'talk things over'. In between his efforts to see Smith, Moore, the son of a Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sean was taught early about survival on the streets of Flint, Michigan. When his mother is murdered, Sean is introduced to a life of drug dealing at its highest level and soon rises up the drug game's totem pole. His only weakness: the love of his life, a beauty named Sunny. As they journey though the downward spiral of their struggle with addiction, someone will die... and a truth is unveiled.
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
"Entra en el hilarante mundo de Kenny y su familia, los extraños Watson de Flint, Michigan. Están su mamá y su papá, su hermanita Joetta y su hermano Byron, que tiene trece años y ya es 'oficialmente un delincuente juvenil'. Cuando mamá y papá deciden que es hora de hacerle una visita a la abuela, papá trae a casa un asombroso Ultra-Glide y los Watson emprenden un viaje increíble. Se encaminan al Sur, a Alabama, hacia uno de los momentos...
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