The Nickel boys
(Audiobook on CD)

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Contributors
Jackson, JD narrator.
Published
[Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2019].
Format
Audiobook on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
9781984891396, 1984891391, 9781984891372
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 940L
Status
Central Library - Media - Main Level - Audiobook CDs
Fiction
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Published
[Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2019].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
ISBN
9781984891396, 1984891391, 9781984891372
UPC
9781984891372
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.5, 10 Points
Lexile code
HL
Lexile measure
940

Notes

General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by JD Jackson ; acknowledgments read by the author.
Description
"As 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"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called The Nickel Academy... [It] is a grotesque chamber of horrors, where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to 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 the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades."--Container.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2020.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, C., & Jackson, J. (2019). The Nickel boys (Unabridged.). Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, Colson, 1969- and JD Jackson. 2019. The Nickel Boys. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, Colson, 1969- and JD Jackson. The Nickel Boys Books on Tape, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, Colson, and JD Jackson. The Nickel Boys Unabridged., Books on Tape, 2019.

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