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Glenview Reads Together September 15-October 7 2020 |
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This Tender Land : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a summer marked by struggling farmers, faith healers and lost souls. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Ordinary Grace.
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Prayers for Sale
by Sandra Dallas
Drawn to the newly married seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, who has moved to their small mountain Colorado town to escape the ravages of the Great Depression, octogenarian Hennie Comfort forges a friendship with the young woman based on shared hardships and secrets.
Fiction Dallas, S
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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky : a novel
by Heidi W. Durrow
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Fiction Durrow, H
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Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family.
Fiction Enger, L
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The Round House : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
Fiction Erdrich, L
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Songs of Willow Frost : a novel
by Jamie Ford
Confined to Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage during the Great Depression, Chinese-American boy William Eng becomes convinced that a certain movie actress is actually the mother he has not seen since he was seven years old, a belief that compels a determined search for answers.
Fiction Ford, J
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Nightwoods : a novel
by Charles Frazier
Named the guardian of her murdered sister's troubled twins, Luce of 1950s rural North Carolina struggles to build a family with the children and a new romantic prospect before being targeted by the twins' father--her sister's killer--who believes that the children are in possession of a stolen cache of money. By a National Book Award winner.
Fiction Frazier, C
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99 Nights in Logar
by Jamil Jan Kochai
A coming-of-age story about one boy's journey across contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring home the family dog, blending the grit and immediacy of voice-driven fiction like We Need New Names with the mythmaking of One Thousand and One Nights. Twelve-year-old Marwand's memories from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago center on his contentious relationship with Budabash, the terrifying but beloved dog who guards his extended family's compound in Logar. Eager to find an ally in this place that's meant to be "home," Marwand approaches Budabash the way he would any dog on his American suburban block--and the results are disastrous: Marwand loses a finger and Budabash escapes. The resulting search for the family dog is an expertly told adventure, a ninety-nine-night quest that sends Marwand and his cousins across the landscape of Logar.
Fiction Kochai, J
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Mary Coin
by Marisa Silver
Inspired by an iconic picture taken during the Great Depression, this multi-generational narrative depicts the lives of the photo's subject, the ambitious and struggling photographer, and a present-day professor who finds a connection to a family legacy in the image.
Fiction Silver, M
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The Nickel Boys : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Fiction Whitehead, C
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Great Crossings : Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
by Christina Snyder
The book centers on the community that developed around Choctaw Academy, the first federally-controlled Indian boarding school in the United States, which operated from 1825 to 1848 on the Kentucky plantation of prominent politician Richard Mentor Johnson. In addition to white and Indian teachers, the school was supported by the labor of free and enslaved African Americans. Although initiated by the Choctaw Nation, the Academy eventually became home to nearly 700 boys and young men from seventeen different Native nations throughout the Southeast and Midwest.
976.903 SNY
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee : Native America from 1890 to the Present
by David Treuer
The received idea of Native American history has been that it essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a Minnesota reservation and training as an anthropologist David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear -- and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence -- the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing thetribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the U.S. military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance.
970.004 TRE
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The Great Depression : America in the 1930's
by T. H. Watkins
A companion volume to the fall PBS series chronicles the devastation caused by the nation's most serious economic upheaval, offering parallels with America's present economic woes.
973.917 WAT
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Stolen Words
by Melanie Florence
When a young girl discovers that her grandfather does not know his native Cree language because he was taken to live at a residential school when he was a boy, she sets out to help him learn the language.
jE FLORENCE, M.
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When We Were Alone
by David Robertson
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength.
jE ROBERTSON, D.
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Billy Creekmore
by Tracey Porter
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and uncle he never knew he had, and he enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and involvement with a union brings trouble, forcing him to embark on an extraordinary journey.
jFICTION PORTER, T.
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H. E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
jFICTION CURTIS, C.
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What the Moon Said
by Gayle Rosengren
Moving to a Depression-era farm when her father loses his job, young Esther, excited by the chance to be a pioneer, helps her family with ideas about how to manage bad weather and a tight budget until her superstitious mother forbids her to spend time with a new friend.
jFICTION ROSENGREN, G.
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Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Jumping off a train in Kansas to learn more about her father's exciting past, Abilene Tucker is initially disappointed by the run-down Depression town she encounters before finding a hidden box of mementos and letters that mention a spy who played an important role in the town's secret history.
jMIDDLE SCHOOL VANDERPOOL, C.
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Two Roads
by Joseph Bruchac
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
jMIDDLE SCHOOL BRUCHAC, J.
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Someplace to Call Home
by Sandra Dallas
Forced from their home by the double crises of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, 12-year-old Hallie and her brothers join thousands of migrants who endure harsh treatment and conditions in order to find work.
jMIDDLE SCHOOL DALLAS, S.
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
A poem cycle that reads as a novel narrates the story of fifteen-year-old Billie Jo and her battle against the elements during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of 1934.
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Lucky Strikes
by Louis Bayard
After her mother dies, Amelia struggles to support her brother and sister by keeping the family gas station going, but she needs a substitute father to keep them out of foster care.
jMIDDLE SCHOOL BAYARD, L.
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Moonshine
by Justin Benton
Thirteen-year-old Cub Jennings has spent most of his life helping his Pa distill moonshine in the woods by their Tennessee home. But all that changes when Pa decides Cub should attend school instead of continuing his lessons at home. And when a gangster's unexpected business offer inspires Pa to aim for increased sales of the illegal moonshine, Cub becomes unwantedly entangled in the dangerous black market world of bootlegging.
jMIDDLE SCHOOL BENTON, J.
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Indian School : Teaching the White Man's Way
by Michael L. Cooper
(Nonfiction) Filled with moving personal stories and archival photographs, a fascinating book documents the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, the first institution opened by the federal government to teach Native American children the "white man's way," which led some students such as Olympian Jim Thorpe to success, but for many others it was an education in isolation and estrangement.
j 970.00497 COO
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