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Author:

Stockett, Kathryn.

Title:

The help / Kathryn Stockett.

Edition:

Berkley movie tie-in trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Berkley Books,

Copyright Date:

2011, c2009

Description:

534 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Civil rights movements--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.)--Fiction.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.

ISBN:

0425245136
9780425245132 (pbk.)

Locations:

DGPA353 -- Alexander Public Library (Alexander)

AEPA906 -- Blakesburg Public Library (Blakesburg)

FCPB384 -- Dike Public Library (Dike)

LBPB837 -- Elk Horn Public Library (Elk Horn)

FMPC224 -- Guttenberg Public Library (Guttenberg)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

XEPE697 -- Red Oak Public Library (Red Oak)

FBPC124 -- Benny Gambaiani Public Library (Shell Rock) — F STO

HZPA135 -- Somers Public Library (Somers)

XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)

TWPC862 -- Toledo Public Library (Toledo)

VSSX062 -- Vinton-Shellsburg CSD (Vinton)

XZPB787 -- Walnut Public Library (Walnut)