The Help Contributor(s): Stockett, Kathryn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0399155341 ISBN-13: 9780399155345 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2009 Annotation: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Small Town & Rural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LCCN: 2008030185 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age Level: 18-UP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grade Level: 13-UP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 1.39" H x 6.43" W x 9.17" L (1.52 lbs) 464 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Themes: - Locality - Jackson, Mississippi - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - South - Chronological Period - 1960's - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - African American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards: Nevada Young Readers' Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2012 Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2014 Mississippi Authors Award, Winner, Fiction, 2009 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, Winner, Fiction, 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards, Winner, Debut Author, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 02/20/2009 pg. 71 People Weekly 02/23/2009 pg. 50 Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2008 pg. 44 Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2009 Library Journal 01/15/2009 pg. 83 Romantic Times 02/01/2009 pg. 52 - Excellent Multicultural Review 07/01/2009 pg. 56 Entertainment Weekly 11/06/2009 pg. 61 Entertainment Weekly 12/25/2009 pg. 110 People Weekly 12/28/2009 pg. 67 Vanity Fair 02/01/2010 pg. 50 Entertainment Weekly 02/12/2010 pg. 109 Entertainment Weekly 03/05/2010 pg. 92 Entertainment Weekly 03/12/2010 pg. 18 Entertainment Weekly 11/05/2010 pg. 29 People Weekly 11/08/2010 pg. 33 People Weekly 08/22/2011 pg. 103 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quiz #: 135979 Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 23.0 |
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Publisher Description: The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film--a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't--nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town... |
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