Burning Up
When a girl she had met at an inner-city church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Hate Crime
Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.
364.15
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: byrd, james, murder [X], hate crimes, african american men, racism [X], homicide [X], jasper (tex.)
Bb Wolf And The Three Lps
BB Wolf, a farmer and family man who fancies himself a blues musician by night, is forced into action when Mr.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wolves, swine, racism [X], murder [X], revenge, blues (music), pigs, homicide [X], blues music, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, graphic novels
This Is My America
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: racism [X], administration of criminal justice, african americans, race relations, prisoners, homicide [X], family life, judicial error, murder [X], dysfunctional families, family problems, large print books
The Barn
"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: till, emmett, lynching, murder [X], african american teenage boys, african americans, racism against black people, collective memory, homicide [X], racism [X], apaah, delta (miss. : region), mississippi