Two of these are from the Youth category, and therefore are shorter books. All three will qualify for the 2011-2012 Reading Program to be reported by July 1, 2012.
Blood Done Sign My Name 2006 Social Action
Mr. Tyson was 10 years old when violence and fear enveloped his town, and his father (Methodist pastor) pleaded for peace and justice. After 30 years, Tyson returns to Oxford, N.C. to make sense of a brutal murder and its repercussions in that town during the 1970s.
The Red Rose Box 2007 Social Action/Youth
On her tenth birthday, Leah Hopper receives a surprise gift: a traveling case decorated with red roses from her glamorous aunt Olivia. Filled with shiny jewelry, expensive soaps, silk bedclothes, and train tickets to visit Olivia in Los Angeles, the red rose box introduces Leah to a life she never knew was possible.
Kira-kira 2007 Social Action/Youth
When sisters Katie and Lynn and their family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the deep south of Georgia, it’s Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it’s Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when illness causes the family to start to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering – kira-kira – in the future.
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