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(0)Richard Wright
1) Native son
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Traces the fall of a young Black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common law. This is the author's powerful...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Offers a selection of haiku poems by the acclaimed writer Richard Wright, with photograph illustrations and a short biography of Wright.
From watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow celebrates the lives of contemporary African American boys.
Author
Publisher
Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Butterflies immediately catch our attention with their beautiful wing patterns and colors. They exemplify metamorphosis with the creeping caterpillar transforming into a soaring butterfly. They have also come to be creatures of science, revealing much to biologists about evolution and the ecological processes and historical accidents that have generated the diversity of life on Earth. In Butterflies, Dick Vane-Wright provides a complete introduction...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Dazzling collection of 810 Haiku written by the late African-American author of Native Son holds true to the traditional Zen discipline of depicting the relationship between man and nature, but does so from the perspective of an African-American man.
Series
Tort and insurance law volume 32
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
20) [Works]
Author
Series
Library of America volume 55-56
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
