Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman ...more
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, L...more
The rollicking account of a boy, a river, and adventures both hilarious and suspenseful, Tom Sawyer is a colorful portrait of a small-town boy in antebellum Missouri. The Whole Story series adds to this enduringly popular tale with extended captions that provide the background information modern readers could otherwise access only through a broad r...more
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