tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88826824569029798342024-02-07T08:37:59.685-08:00Smithville High School LibraryMrs. Hemphillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964098732808428403noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882682456902979834.post-1789137998904500452012-03-08T12:50:00.000-08:002012-03-08T19:27:18.990-08:00Hunger Games movie will be out in March. Read the book first.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In a story told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.Mrs. Hemphillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964098732808428403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882682456902979834.post-13892268059794797312012-02-03T09:09:00.000-08:002012-02-03T09:11:15.315-08:00Black History Month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>Race</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black;">.</span> You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino. Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things. We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought. Why? Where did those feelings come from? Why are they so powerful? </span></span></div>
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All of my books start with questions, and I hope they prompt readers to ask questions of their own.<br />
I find history endlessly fascinating. It is the detective story that yields us as the answer.<br />
I try to write each book with the same care I would put into a novel, but with the same respect for truth as a judge in a court of law.Mrs. Hemphillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02964098732808428403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882682456902979834.post-53557746543515400252012-02-03T08:53:00.000-08:002012-02-03T09:05:18.663-08:00Black History Month Good Reads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must <span class="Highlight">walk</span> with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig <span class="Highlight">water</span> wells in Sudan. </div>
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