The Resource The help, Kathryn Stockett
The help, Kathryn Stockett
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The item The help, Kathryn Stockett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The help, Kathryn Stockett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business but can't mind her tongue. It is 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women --mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another"--Page 4 of cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 721 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781410415530
- Label
- The help
- Title
- The help
- Statement of responsibility
- Kathryn Stockett
- Subject
-
- Historical fiction
- trueDetermination in women
- trueHistorical fiction
- Jackson (Miss.) -- Fiction
- trueHousekeepers
- Historical fiction
- trueRace relations
- Civil rights movements
- Mississippi -- Jackson
- trueHousehold employees
- Civil rights movements -- Fiction
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
- trueCivil Rights Movement
- Domestic fiction
- Housekeepers
- trueUnemployed persons
- Fiction
- trueInterracial friendship
- African American women -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Historical fiction
- African American women
- Mississippi
- Domestic fiction
- trueJackson, Mississippi
- trueLife change events
- Housekeepers -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueAfrican American women
- trueBooks to movies
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueCollege graduates
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business but can't mind her tongue. It is 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women --mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another"--Page 4 of cover
- Summary
- Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project
- Award
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- Goodreads Choice Award, 2009.
- Indies' Choice Book Awards, Adult Debut, 2010.
- Amelia Bloomer List, 2010
- Great American Read, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 299820
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stockett, Kathryn,
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
-
- UG
- UG
- LC call number
- PS3619.T636
- LC item number
- H45 2009b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
-
- 4.4
- 4.4
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print basic series
- Study program name
-
- Accelerated Reader
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Civil rights movements
- African American women
- Housekeepers
- Jackson (Miss.)
- Large type books
- African American women
- Civil rights movements
- Housekeepers
- Large type books
- Mississippi
- Mississippi
- Large type books
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The help, Kathryn Stockett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21512217
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 721 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410415530
- Lccn
- 2009001842
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Stock number
- Ingram
- System control number
- (OCoLC)299281435
- Label
- The help, Kathryn Stockett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21512217
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 721 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410415530
- Lccn
- 2009001842
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Stock number
- Ingram
- System control number
- (OCoLC)299281435
Subject
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- trueCivil Rights Movement
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- Fiction
- trueCollege graduates
- trueDetermination in women
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHousehold employees
- trueHousekeepers
- Housekeepers
- Housekeepers -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueInterracial friendship
- Jackson (Miss.) -- Fiction
- trueJackson, Mississippi
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueLife change events
- Mississippi
- Mississippi -- Jackson
- trueRace relations
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueUnemployed persons
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
Genre
- trueBooks to movies
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
Member of
Included in
- trueAmelia Bloomer Lists - Young Adult Fiction: 2010
- trueGoodreads Choice Awards: 2009
- trueGreat American Read 2018
- trueIndies' Choice Book Awards: Adult Debut Fiction
- trueMade into Movies: Fiction A-Z
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