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Three powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history The Color Purple is Walker's stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family....
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The Color Purple (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Alice Walker
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.
Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:
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Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for...
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Jessica LeCroix drops a bomb on her best friend, Ramie: "I'm a lesbian." Ramie Grant cannot believe her ears. Jess!? Her best friend, her teammate . . . a homosexual? Before long other girls on the basketball team find out, and little jokes become vicious attacks. In the end, Ramie must decide if she will stand by Jessica's side or turn her back on a friend in need. The tenth book in the teen fiction series TrueColors, Bright Purple examines the subjects...
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A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
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Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker's epistolary...
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The story is about a little girl, Princess Purple, who wants to go out and play on a rainy day but cannot.
She stays in her room, sad, with no new toys to play with. Her goldfish, Genesis, does not like to see her sad., so he jumps out of his tank many times to get her attention. He just wants her to be happy. He wants her to notice him.
She stays sad until he does something magical. On rainy days, a fish can brighten a room and make it like...
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A green tomato ripens on a vine. Soon it will be plump, red, and ready to eat. Nearby, a dark gray foal runs alongside its mother. As it gets older, its fur will change to white--just like its mother's. Early readers will be taken on a colorful tour of a farm in this simple yet captivating text about different colors and what they mean. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. Stunning...
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If you have ever suffered in silence from abuse and domestic violence, Paint My World Purple will speak volumes to your spirit. After years of suffering, Mary Reese-Paul gained the courage to pack up her toddler son and leave the man she had married as a young teen. Having the courage and inner strength to walk away from an abusive marriage as a young mother is just the beginning of this heartfelt, page-turning memoir. The question you will find yourself...
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Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs, co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alice Walker. Titles in this study guide include The Color Purple, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange, Revolutionary Petunias, Once, Meridian, and In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Good Night Willie Lee, and I'll See You in the Morning.
As a world renowned, author of African American literature, Walker established...
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Rock On, Baby!
The world of music is colorful! With simple text and playful imagery, Yellow like a Submarine, Purple like the Rain is a backstage pass to a rocking good time for both babies and adults alike. This board book celebrates classic songs and the many different hues to discover within their lyrics, whether you're humming along to "Here Comes the Sun" or "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Check out the back of the book for a full list...
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