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The Help

by Kathryn Stockett
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.
Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...
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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9781440697661
  • Release date: February 10, 2009

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781440697661
  • Release date: February 10, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781440697661
  • File size: 945 KB
  • Release date: February 10, 2009
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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:4.4
Lexile® Measure:730
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:3

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.
Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction