Good Housekeeping Magazine’s BEST 50 KIDS’ Books of All Time 2025 United Women in Faith Reading Program Selection 2024 Mississippi Author of the Year Award Winner 2024 Mississippi Magnolia Award Honor Book 2024 Great Stone Face Book Award Nominee (New Hampshire) 2024 Beehive Book Award Nominee (Utah) 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Youth Book Award Winner 2022 Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year Award Finalist 2022 New-York Historical Society Children’s History Book Prize Finalist Kate DiCamillo’s READ BRAVE Reading Challenge Selection Kate DiCamillo’s TOP FIVE Recommended Books for Children Week Junior Magazine TOP SEVEN Kids’ Books of 2022 Common Sense Media BEST SIX Kids’ Books of 2022 Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole family–and to be someone. It’s 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He’s going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer–or maybe both–and live in a big brick house in town. There’ll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won’t have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his class–particularly those about famous colored people like Mr. Thurgood Marshall and Miss Marian Wright–and borrowing books from his teacher’s bookshelf. When Mr. Foster presents him with a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ellis Earl is amazed to encounter a family that’s even worse off than his own–and is delighted by the Buckets’ very happy ending. But when Mama tells Ellis Earl that he might need to quit school to help support the family, he wonders if happy endings are only possible in storybooks. Around the historical touchstone of Robert Kennedy’s southern “poverty tour,” Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell a detail-rich and poignant story with memorable characters, sure to resonate with readers who have ever felt constricted by their circumstances.
The Lucky Ones
$7.94
This work of historical fiction provides insight into the Civil Rights era and themes of poverty and ambition.
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| Weight | 0.289 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 14 × 2.1 × 20.8 in |
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The Lucky Ones
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This gothic novel develops critical thinking and analytical skills as the student engages with a complex mystery plot.
They called themselves “the lucky ones” They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by their parents and chosen by legendary philanthropist and brain surgeon Dr. Vincent Capello to live in The Dragon, his almost magical beach house on the Oregon Coast. Allison was the youngest of the lucky ones living an idyllic life with her newfound family…until the night she almost died, and was then whisked away from the house and her adopted family forever. Now, thirteen years later, Allison receives a letter from Roland, Dr. Capello’s eldest son, warning her that their father is ill and in his final days. Allison knows she must go home again and confront the ghosts of her past. She’s determined to find out what really happened that fateful night–was it an accident, or, as she’s always suspected, did one of her beloved family members try to kill her? But digging into the past can reveal horrific truths, and when Allison pieces together the story of her life, she learns the terrible secret at the heart of the family she once loved but never really knew.
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| Weight | 0.181 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 13.3 × 2.6 × 20.3 in |
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