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041	0	\|aeng
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100	1	\|aWhitehead, Colson,\|d1969-
245	14	\|aThe nickel boys :\|ba novel /\|cColson Whitehead.
250		\|a1st ed.
260		\|aNew York :\|bDoubleday,\|cc2019.
300		\|a213 p. ;\|c22 cm.
520	8	\|aAs the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the localblack college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boywho resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is toscheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals andTurner's skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys' fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.
610	20	\|aFlorida School for Boys\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aAbuse of administrative power\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aAfrican American boys\|xAbuse of\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aAfrican American teenagers\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aAfrican Americans\|xCivil rights\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aAfrican Americans\|zSouthern States\|xSocial conditions\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aMale friendship\|xFiction.
650	0	\|aRacism\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aReformatories\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aReformatories\|xCorrupt practices\|vFiction.
650	0	\|aTeenagers\|vFiction.
651	0	\|aFlorida\|vFiction.
651	0	\|aFrenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.)\|vFiction.
981		\|aLexile HL940L
981		\|aLexile 940
983		\|aKCIS
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Colson Whitehead is the author of nine books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Underground Railroad, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, he lives in New York City.
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