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2023 Read Widely: North America & The Caribbean
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Black Authors - Fiction
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Black Authors - Fiction
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Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
De poco sirve ser un buen estudiante en la Academia Nickel para chicos. Elwood -pobre, huérfano y de raza negra- no tarda en descubrirlo cuando, por un malentendido, le encierran en este reformatorio. Con la ayuda de un buen amigo, este adolescente descubrirá cómo sobrevivir en este lugar que esconde un brutal secreto y una realidad corrupta, respaldada por muchos y obviada por todos. Basada en el estremecedor caso real de un reformatorio de Florida...
3) Miedziaki
Author
Publisher
Albatros
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Polish
Description
Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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