| The Help Contributor(s): Stockett, Kathryn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0399155341 ISBN-13: 9780399155345 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008030185 |
| Physical Information: 1.39" H x 6.43" W x 9.17" (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 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 135979 Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 23.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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... |