When LeRoi Tremain is forced to leave his home after he kills two white deputies, he embarks on a journey brings him face to face with the horror of World War I, the Mob in Harlem, and the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana.
the Dust Bowl migration and Okie culture in California
Gregory, James Noble
1991
Chronicles the experiences of the more than one million people who traveled to California to find better opportunities during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom of the 1940s.
Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.
In an Oklahoma oil drilling camp in 1960, fifteen-year-old Clare finds her relationship with her best friend threatened by her new romance with Ethan, a boy carrying a dark secret.
Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
Emma Moureen Cummins flees from an overbearing father and the prospect of a loveless marriage, and as she heads to Oklahoma, she must dodge a sheriff who has been warned to be on the lookout for her and return Emma to her father.
A rhyming alphabet that names people, places, and things from Oklahoma's history, culture, and natural world and provides background information on each one.
