03761cam a2200601 4500 567899430 TxAuBib 20220701120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781536224672 1536224677 B09FPBFV42 Amazon a3c2fb62-0d9b-4649-907d-ac276582080b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 7151992 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jackson, Linda Williams. The Lucky Ones [Libby eBook]. Candlewick Press, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3644kB. realistic fiction books for kids 9-12. historical fiction for children 9-12. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. books for 11 year old girls. books for 12 year old girls. books for 10 year old girls. books for 12 year old boys. books for 8 year old girls. books for 9 year old girls. books for 10 year old boys. books for 8 year old boys. books for 9 year old boys. books for kids age 9 12. books for boys age 9 12. kids books ages 9-12. realistic fiction. Social Justice. Civil Rights. compassion. prejudice. kindness. Poverty. family. racism. HTML:<p><b>Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole family—and to be someone.</b><br /> It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He's going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer—or maybe both—and live in a big brick house in town. There'll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won't have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his class—particularly those about famous colored people like Mr. Thurgood Marshall and Miss Marian Wright—and borrowing books from his teacher's bookshelf. When Mr. Foster presents him with a copy of <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,</i> Ellis Earl is amazed to encounter a family that's even worse off than his own—and is delighted by the Buckets' very happy ending. But when Mama tells Ellis Earl that he might need to quit school to help support the family, he wonders if happy endings are only possible in storybooks. Around the historical touchstone of Robert Kennedy's southern "poverty tour," Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell a detail-rich and poignant story with memorable characters, sure to resonate with readers who have ever felt constricted by their circumstances.</p>. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. Juvenile Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-01 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a3c2fb62-0d9b-4649-907d-ac276582080b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a3c2fb62-0d9b-4649-907d-ac276582080b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a3c2fb62-0d9b-4649-907d-ac276582080b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)