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The Friskative Dog

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Yearling
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $5.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-42145-0 (0-440-42145-4)

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Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a hardcover library binding.

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A Million Nightingales

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9559-9 (1-4000-9559-X)

From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.

Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated from... Read more >
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The Friskative Dog

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-0-375-83777-7 (0-375-83777-9)

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Also available as an eBook, hardcover library binding and a trade paperback.

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Highwire Moon

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72261-2 (0-385-72261-3)

Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico—without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her... Read more >

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The Gettin Place

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 14, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48659-0 (0-385-48659-6)

Susan Straight’s most powerful novel yet is framed by two race riots: the little known Tulsa riots of the 1920s, in which white Tulsa burned down the town’s black enclave; and the notorious L.A. riots of the 1990s.

Straight’s brilliant story of the effects of violence in America on three generations of... Read more >

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Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 1, 1995
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47434-4 (0-385-47434-2)

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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Written by Susan Straight

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 15, 1993
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47012-4 (0-385-47012-6)

“Straight’s portrayal of a black woman’s life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of human thought and feeling.” —USA Today Read more >
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