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Language
English
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An affecting portrait of interracial love in post-war Japan Pearl S. Buck's The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in post-war Japan. The Japanese student's father worked in the United States as a doctor, but had to flee to Kyoto to avoid imprisonment in an internment camp. The American soldier has inherited his family's estate in Virginia, where interracial marriage is forbidden....
2) Sounder
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Medal, 1970. A young negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man.
3) Sounder
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Revised Harper Trophy edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. The book traces the sorrow and abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the nineteenth-century South.
4) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.