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• A Change of Heart

  Walsh, Alice (E. Alice),

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  A young African American and the son of sharecroppers, Lanier Phillips escapes the violence, racism, and segregation of his Georgia home by joining the navy during the Second World War.

• Sewing Stories

  Harriet Powers' Journey From Slave to Artist

  Herkert, Barbara,

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  Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carrimebac

  the Town That Walked

  Moore, David Barclay,

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  The Civil War may be over, but times are not substantially improved for the freed Black citizens of Walkerton, Georgia. When a hooded mob threatens to burn down the town, they must work together to protect Walkerton and its people. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bigger Than a Breadbox

  Snyder, Laurel

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  Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old breadbox with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just South of Home

  Strong, Karen,

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  Cousins Sarah and Janie unearth a tragic event in their small Southern town's history in this witty middle grade novel set in Warrenville, Georgia. Janie has a knack for getting into trouble and has Sarah take her to the "haunted" Creek…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Football Genius

  Green, Tim, 1963-

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  Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting football plays before they occur, attempts to use his ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but he must first prove himself to the coach and players.

• The Storm Before Atlanta

  Schwabach, Karen

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  In 1863 northwestern Georgia, an unlikely alliance forms between ten-year-old New York drummer boy Jeremy, fourteen-year-old Confederate Charlie, and runaway slave Dulcie as they learn truths about the Civil War, slavery, and freedom.

• My Jasper June

  Snyder, Laurel,

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  The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago when everything changed.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shai & Emmie Star in Break An Egg!

  Wallis, Quvenzhané, 2003-

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  When Shai Williams, who plans to become a star on Broadway, loses the lead role in the third-grade musical at her performing arts elementary school in Atlanta, she learns an important lesson about adaptability, from her mother, aunt, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• More to the Story

  Khan, Hena,

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  As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.

• A Haunted Ghost Tour in Georgia

  Martin, Louise,

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  Little Ghost is going on a spooky Halloween tour around Georgia, and you're invited to ride along! Take a trip with the Ghost family as they travel from Savannah to Atlanta. Make storytime spook-tacular with this cute, not-so-scary rhyming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Like Sky

  Youngblood, Leslie C.

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  Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.

• Lailah's Lunchbox

  Faruqi, Reem

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  Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact

  Hartley, A. J. (Andrew James)

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  When Darwen moves from England to Atlanta, Georgia, he discovers a world of magic and monsters on the other side of his closet mirror.

• Lunch-box Dream

  Abbott, Tony

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  Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.

• Santa Is Coming to Georgia

  Smallman, Steve,

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  Santa and his trusty reindeer team are gearing up for the most exciting Christmas Eve in Georgia yet—but one of his reindeer is missing! Where could Comet have gone? From Augusta to Athens, from St. Simons to Columbus, read along as Santa…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And the Tide Comes In--

  Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh

  Alber, Merryl

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  When her cousin Ginger visits, a young girl takes her to explore the plants and animals in the Georgia salt marsh near her home.

• The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

  O'Connor, Barbara

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  After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Liberation of Gabriel King

  Going, K. L. (Kelly L.)

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  In Georgia during the summer of 1976, Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African American girl who is facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade.

• My Name Is Sally Little Song

  Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

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  When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.