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Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- 1 The Nature of Melodrama -- 2 Triumph -- The Pattern -- Variations -- Developments -- A Defence -- 3 Defeat -- 4 Protest -- Bibliography and Acknowledgements -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Titles
For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys. All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP-Women Airforce Service Pilots. Ida has a chance to fulfill her dream if she's willing to use her light skin to pass as a white girl. She wants to fly more than anything, but Ida soon learns that denying one's self and family is a heavy burden, and ultimately it's not what you do but who you are that's most important. Read Sherri L. Smith's posts on the Penguin Blog
Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda. When he's not learning how to rule a kingdom from his father he's off breaking rules with his best friend, M'Baku. But as conflict brews near Wakanda, T'Challa's father makes a
Siskiyou County Library has vol. 1 only.