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| Title
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The help (42320) |
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| Physical
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534 pages
| Produced
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2011
| Distributor
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Berkley Books
(5363)
| Audience
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Teacher/Professional (T)
| Collection
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Professional Library
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| Synopsis
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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. She 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.
| Author
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Stockett, Kathryn
| Dimensions
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22 cm.
| Edition
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Berkley trade pbk. ed.
ISBN#
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9780425232200 (pbk.)
| Pub. Loc.
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New York
| Notes
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Includes an essay by the author and a reading group guide.
Some editions are movie tie-in.
| Stmt Resp
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Kathryn Stockett.
| Subjects
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Historical fiction;
Civil rights demonstrationsFiction;
African American womenFiction;
Jackson (Miss.)Fiction
| Call#
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FIC STO
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