Books like The Secret Life of Bees
In 1964 South Carolina a fourteen-year-old white girl runs off with her black housekeeper to a pink house kept by three beekeeping sisters who know the secret of her dead mother.
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The Help
In 1962 Jackson a young white graduate secretly co-writes a book with the black maids of her friends, and Mississippi is exactly as dangerous about it as you would expect.
Kin
Vernice and Annie, two motherless girls who grew up as best friends in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, take very different paths through the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, Vernice to Spelman College in Atlanta and a world of privilege, Annie in search of the mother who left her.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson's childhood in the 1960s and 1970s, between her grandparents' home in South Carolina and her mother's in Brooklyn, told in short poems about family, faith, the civil rights movement and finding her way to words.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.
Bastard Out of Carolina
Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright grows up among the hard-drinking, fiercely loyal Boatwright clan of Greenville, South Carolina, while her mother's new husband turns her childhood into a fight to survive.
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between the poor Black neighbourhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school she attends, and when she sees a police officer shoot her unarmed childhood friend Khalil, everyone wants to know what she saw.
The Invention of Wings
On her eleventh birthday in Charleston in 1803, Sarah Grimké is given ten-year-old Hetty 'Handful' Grimké as her maid, and over thirty-five years the two women, one who will become an abolitionist and one enslaved in her household, tell their parallel stories.
Dear Martin
Justyce McAllister, a Black honour student at a mostly white Atlanta prep school, is handcuffed by a police officer while trying to help his drunk ex-girlfriend, and starts writing letters to Martin Luther King Jr. to work out how to live by his teachings.
March: Book One
Congressman John Lewis's graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, from his Alabama childhood to the march on Selma.
Go Set a Watchman
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.
The Prince of Tides
A Southern football coach goes to New York to help his suicidal twin sister's psychiatrist understand the family, and the family turns out to be much worse than either of them told.
Ellen Foster
Eleven-year-old Ellen tells how she got through her mother's death and her father's neglect in rural North Carolina, and how she went looking for a new family and took its name.