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Darby

By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua

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Darby's first-person narrative is frank and immediate . . . expressing what it's like for an ordinary white kid who suddenly discovers evil — and courage — where she lives." — BOOKLIST "From my back porch, I can see where my best friend lives. Evette’s tenant house sits on my daddy’s property . . . but on account of her being black and me being white, she hardly ever comes in my house, and I don’t go in hers. My daddy says that’s just the way it is." Darby Carmichael thinks her best friend is probably the smartest person she knows, even though, as Mama says, Evette’s school uses worn-out books and crumbly chalk. Whenever they can, Darby and Evette shoot off into the woods beyond the farm to play at being fancy ladies and schoolteachers. One thing Darby has never dreamed of being - not until Evette suggests it - is a newspaper girl who writes down the truth for all to read. In no time, and with more than a little assistance from Evette, Darby and her column in the Bennettsville Times are famous in town and beyond. But is Marlboro County, South Carolina, circa 1926, ready for the truth its youngest reporter has to tell?

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Candlewick Press

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0763674265

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9780763674267

Gone and Back Again

By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua

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Gone and Back Again

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Caley’s family is on the move again. His mother and stepfather have made another in a series of bad decisions, and once again, Caley, his older brother Fulton, and little sister Louise are pulling up stakes. With each move, Caley’s mental state grows a little worse. This time they’re living in Naples, Florida, where Caley’s stepfather has finally found a job. Sad and confused, Caley attributes his problems to Star Trek, the glow from his clock radio, anything but the root cause: family dynamics, including his love/hate relationship with Fulton. Working together at a Pancake Palace, the simmering tension between the two boys finally explodes. The episode cracks the pall of sadness that has enveloped Caley for so long, enabling him to understand the journey, both literal and figurative, that the family has taken. Written from a survivor’s standpoint, Gone and Back Again describes Caley’s descent into severe depression with humor, hope, and poignancy.

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Catapult

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1933368772

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9781933368771

In the Wake of the Boatman

By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua

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In the Wake of the Boatman

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Puttnam Douglas Steward isn't having an identity crisishe is one. To his father Carl, he's a disappointment, and has been since the day he came home from the hospital. To his mother, he's Mama's Boy, and will forever be nothing less and nothing more. The Army thinks he's a hero, having single-handedly saved his troops from an ambush when they stumble upon a major, unknown supply line in Vietnam, then exposing a major Soviet espionage ring in the U.S. Only Milton, Putt's college friend and environmental activist, and Putt's sister Mary see that something is deeply confused about Puttnam Steward. Yet neither of them knows that the only time Putt ever truly feels happy is when he wears a woman's clothes and becomes, for a brief, fleeting moment, someone else. And they don't know how much that disgusts him. In the Wake of the Boatman is a brilliant drama, stirringly and sensitively told, about the elusiveness of identity. Another important novel from one of America's most praised and accomplished novelists, it's a masterpiece that won't soon be forgotten.

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Bancroft Press

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1890862789

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9781890862787

Gone and Back Again

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In the Wake of the Boatman

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The Reappearance of Sam Webber

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The Reappearance of Sam Webber

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Sam Webber, forced to relocate with his mother after his father disappears, is fearful of the new neighborhood, his classmates, and the spector of his father's depression, but over the course of a year he makes friends and begins to heal.

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1890862908

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Darby

By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua

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King of the Pygmies

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King of the Pygmies

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After hearing what he believes are other peoples' thoughts and learning that he may have schizophrenia, high school sophomore Penn has to decide whether to accept the diagnosis.

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Candlewick Press

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0763614181

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9780763614188

The Reappearance of Sam Webber

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The Naperville White House

By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua,Jerome Bartels

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The Naperville White House

By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua,Jerome Bartels

A white, middle-class boy discovers how the poor live when his father walks out and his mother moves to a cheap part of Baltimore. Fortunately, there is the guiding hand of a black school janitor and the novel is the story of their friendship. A debut in fiction.

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1890862916

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Book's by Jonathon Scott Fuqua

Darby

Darby

Gone and Back Again

Gone and Back Again

In the Wake of the Boatman

In the Wake of the Boatman

Gone and Back Again

Gone and Back Again

In the Wake of the Boatman

In the Wake of the Boatman

The Reappearance of Sam Webber

The Reappearance of Sam Webber

Darby

Darby

King of the Pygmies

King of the Pygmies

The Reappearance of Sam Webber

The Reappearance of Sam Webber

The Naperville White House

The Naperville White House

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