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The bluest eye : a novel / Toni Morrison.

Morrison, Toni, (author.).

Summary:

Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes....

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307278449
  • ISBN: 0307278441
  • ISBN: 9780808562825
  • Physical Description: xiii, 205 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2007.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
920L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 8 36938.
Subject: African American girls > Fiction.
Race identity > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Girls > Fiction.
Shame > Fiction.
Girls.
Ohio > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Young adult fiction.
Fiction.

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  • 38 of 44 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Old Fort Branch Library FIC MOR (Text) 37810438148941 Adult Fiction Checked out 10/31/2024