Kevin Hooks
1) Sounder
Summary
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
2) Sounder
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This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help (and sometimes hindrance) of various people along the road.
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Two men conquered the North Pole. One came home to a hero's welcome; the other--because of the color of his skin--slipped into anonymity, all but forgotten by history.This riveting, true adventure restores Matthew Henson, the first African American to reach the North Pole and the unsung hero of the Commander Robert E. Peary's expedition, to his rightful place of honor.
4) Sounder
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Summary
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
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21 Jump Street volume 12
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Hanson and Penhall investigate students who participate in illegal street races.