Yankee girl
Rodman, Mary Ann2017
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It's 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed 'Yankee Girl' and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie - one of the school's first black students - has it much worse. Alice can't stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up. It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes. Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, 'Yankee Girl' is a powerful, resonant and relevant story about racism and doing the right thing.
Main title:
Yankee girl / Mary Ann Rodman.
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Imprint:
London : Usborne, 2017.
Collation:
247 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780746067499 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Local class:
FJC
Language:
English
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Index terms:
Language ArtsEnglish1960sintegrationautobiographiesUnited States of Americaracism
BRN:
45906
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