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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
2) Tennessee
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the Great Smoky Mountains' hazy clouds to Civil War reenactments at Shiloh, there's lots to see and do in Tennessee! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Tennessee special."--Amazon.com.
3) Tennessee
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a tour of Tennessee, describing the state's history, culture, land, economy, government, and sights, and including unique facts, color maps and photos, the state song, suggested activities, lists of famous people, cultural institutions, and annual events, and other resources.
4) Tennessee
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, religions, culture, sports, arts, and people of Tennessee.
5) Tennessee
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Details the geography, government, history, and culture of Tennessee.
Author
Publisher
Blair, an imprint of Carolina Wren Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music, tobacco fields, and a...
8) Suttree
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1992].
Language
English
Description
The story or Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there - a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters - he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
9) Swamp Angel
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This picture book tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination - when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a personal tragedy, writer Ava spends the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of an old friend and his aunts. But Woodburn Hall is anything but quiet: ancient feuds and modern-day rivalries emerge as Ava stumbles onto the darker side of the family's history, and becomes tangled in their secrets.
16) The wrong side
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Formats
Description
Small-town attorney Bocephus Haynes investigates the murder of a teen pop star, the prime suspect of which is a local high school football hero, the victim's boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jade Fitzgerald left the pain of her past in the dust when she headed out for college a decade ago. Now she's thriving in her career and glowing in the light of Max Benson's love. But then Jade's hippie mother arrives in Whisper Hollow, Tennessee, for Jade's wedding along with Willow, her wild younger sister. Their arrival forces Jade to throw open the dark closets of her past--the insecurity of living with a restless, wandering mother, the silence...
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