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| The Ninth Day Young adult historical fiction/fantasy "The times, they are a-changin'" — Bob Dylan (shown here with Joan Baez), from the title song of his album released in January, 1964 |
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This sequel to Blue Thread takes us to Berkeley, California, in December, 1964, and to Paris, France, in December, 1099, just after the First Crusade. For Hope Miriam Friis, it's the end of a year of civil rights confrontations, protests on the Berkeley campus, and the lure of "flower power." For Dolcette haLevi, the teenage girl Hope meets in Paris, it's the start of a desperate struggle to save the newborn son Dolcette's husband intends to sacrifice. |
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Headlines Young adult
historical fiction
Headlines is set in the Cold War era of bobby socks, doo-wop music ... and lynching. Background characters include Elvis, Sputnik 2 and its canine cosmonaut Laika, and the nine black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School under U.S. Army protection. |
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| "Negroes" is what you should call blacks
in fictional Sandy Heights, New Jersey, in 1957—if you
respect them as much as student journalist Barbara
"Babs" Rosen thinks she does. Babs vows to stop a
white-supremacist bully from inciting a race riot at
their high school's dance. She pressures friends to help
her gather evidence and write an exposé about the bully
for the local newspaper. But the published article fails
to name names, and the principal merely cancels the
dance. No one seems to care, until a black classmate
Babs barely knows challenges her to cross the school’s
racial divide. Babs collaborates on a confrontation she
fears might backfire and about which she has promised to
write not one single word. |
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