alabama

After her best friend Holly jumps off a railroad bridge and vanishes, fifteen-year-old Jane becomes convinced that the desperate, devouring mud creature who arises from the river is Holly, trapped and unaware she is dead.

"Describes the brutal killing of a young black man in Alabama, and subsequent conviction of two Klansmen in 1981 and the civil suit against the United Klans of America that exposed the true motives and philosophy of the organization and ultimately bankrupted them"--OCLC.

"Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led [Jonathan Myrick] Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation"--Amazon.

After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon Blake is removed from the Alabama forest where he was raised and sent to a boy's home, where, for the first time, he has contact with the outside world and learns about friendship, love, and humanity.

When his father tries to save the family farm in Alabama in 1898 by following the advice of George Washington Carver, fourteen-year-old Jesse struggles to help in his own way.

In the small town of Lawton, Alabama, star high school quarterback West Ashby meets new girl Maggie Carlton, both battling feelings of grief and sorrow.

Twentieth-century American author Truman Capote's first play, in which an orphan boy and two old women spend a day in a treehouse in the 1930s American South.

"When Billie hears about a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders passing through Anniston to protest segregation on buses, she thinks change could be coming. But instead of embracing change, Billie's town responds with violence, and she finds herself at Forsyth & Sons Grocery watching a bus burn. Shocked by the actions of people she thought she knew, she realizes that freedom has a cost. But is she brave enough to stand up and fight for it?"--Dust jacket.

Presents information on the state of Alabama.