mississippi

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Heart describes how her self-absorbed, hypocritical uncle nearly destroys the Mennonite community over which he has become leader.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the life and writings of William Faulkner, covering major characters and themes; literary and cultural contexts; relatives and friends; historical events, people, and places; social and cultural developments; and literary and philosophical terms and movements.

Recounts the life story of Mississippian Fannie Lou Hamer and of her part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Fourteen-year-old Holly Fay Lovell leaves the small southern town where she lives with her mother, a seamstress, in order to pursue her dream of a singing career, not knowing the whole truth about her humble beginnings.

Granada, an old woman caring for a young girl who needs healing, tells her life story of being born a slave and being taken in as the plantation mistress's own child, relating her relationship with Polly Shine, a slave known as a healer who causes unrest across the plantation.

A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.

A Chicago-born young African-American man pays the ultimate price for speaking a few words in French to a white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.

In southern Mississippi, an African-American father kills the two white men who raped and beat his ten-year-old daughter, and a pair of idealistic but inexperienced young lawyers take the case only to find themselves targets of hatred and bigotry in a racist community.