Discussion of historical context is based upon Marable, Race, Reform, and Rebellion; Darlene Clark Hine et al., The African American Odyssey (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice-Hall, 2006); and Franklin and Moss, Jr., ...
Part of the "High Impact" series for reluctant readers, this fiction text is designed to motivate secondary school students with a reading age of eight to nine.
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
"A classic tale of forbidden love, a Romeo and Juliet for the current moment." —San Francisco Chronicle A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection Hector didn’t know how to stop Azmina from doing what she did whenever ...
Barbara DiBernard and Judy Gibson, Betty Orr, Joy Castro, and especially Amelia Montes provided sustenance, physical and otherwise. They believed in the value of the work. My family was always encouraging. Thanks are due my sister Katha ...
In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
Presents essays, artworks, and a timeline of events to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This impression needs some correction, to be sure: it was white Baptists in both places who were (mainly) wrong on this score, while other, African-ancestry Baptists, such as Martin L. King, were (mainly) right. Yet the wrongheaded thus ...
The story that he had to tell--of the brutal murder he had witnessed the previous evening--set in motion the detection of Britain's most infamous serial killings: the Moors Murders.
“ Dr. Bryant ! Yes , but I think someone was following me . ” She twisted to look behind her , and the doctor followed her gaze . “ I don't see anyone . ” He frowned and surveyed the huge parking areas . “ I turned back when I saw him ...
Witness: Poems
The Journey Nears Its End January 1999 to Present Hancock Michigan Carmen jumps out of the car. I turn to follow her when a large, black pantherlike animal, with its head raised and its back straight, deliberately crosses the snow ...
A dozen pairs of glasses the new ones never her. the Essential Hemingway pristine in a Woolworth bag bought for a cover's bait the old man's lived-in face. Unopened. What is this of ironies and pity? A silk-green handkerchief its terse ...
Missy Jenkins, a young LPN for whom Deborah had found a house a few months earlier, stood in the waiting-room doorway. “May we see Mother now?” Deborah asked. “Yes. She'll be going in to surgery in about thirty-five minutes, ...
Witness: A Thriller and Suspense eBook Sampler from Witness Impulse William Morrow/Harper Collins e-original thriller imprint Witness Impulse presents a free sampler of excerpts from twelve new or upcoming novels, as well as "Claws," a ...
Witness: Reflections for Family and Friends
Lee. When I wanted to leave it was a Friday. I was so still all through the night, then got up and just kept saying I'm sorry. You didn't really say too many words and mercifully did not rush to change my tears with unasked for Kleenex.
James William McClendon explores the impact of the radical effects of the 16th centruy Reformation for its heirs in this three-volume set dedicated to systematic theology.
I'm not going to praise you for what you're doing, because after you have communion, you're worse off than before. They tell me you're still divided and I ... If you need more, can't you eat at home before or after you come to church?
"In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protaegae and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an ...