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The mortification of Fovea Munson

Forced to help in her parents' cadaver lab for the summer, Fovea Munson, twelve, discovers three talking heads in need of a favor.
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A few red drops

the Chicago race riot of 1919
This is a compelling look at the Chicago race riot of 1919, a crisis in the history of race relations that is echoed in today's headlines.
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Love, hate & other filters

Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
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Fiona's lace

Fiona and her family moved from Ireland to Chicago to begin a new life and when the family is struck with misfortune, Fiona's lace must help save them.

The great fire

Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.

Once you know this

Fifth-grader Brittany struggles to plan, or even imagine, a future away from her mother's abusive boyfriend and the poverty and crime of Chicago's West Side.
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Once you know this

2017
Fifth-grader Brittany struggles to plan, or even imagine, a future away from her mother's abusive boyfriend and the poverty and crime of Chicago's West Side.
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Hull-House

2004
Collects black-and-white, annotated photographs that provide an overview of the history and services of Hull-House, the first settlement house in the United States.
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Eye on the struggle

Ethel Payne, the first lady of the Black Press
Ethel Lois Payne was a pioneering journalist who worked in an industry dominated by white men. She became the first female African American radio and television commentator on a national network, working for CBS. She was heavily involved in the push for African American civil rights, covering events such as the Montgomery bus boycott, the desegregation of Alabama, and the integration of Little Rock's schools. Her reporting on legislative and judicial civil rights enlightened and motivated black readers and influenced those in politics who were advocating for the end of African American segregation.

City of grit and gold

2017
Addie, a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in 1886 Chicago, struggles to keep her family together at the time of the Haymarket affair, as laborers protest for better working conditions.

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