Yankee Girl
Author | : Mary Ann Rodman |
Publisher | : Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781409590774 |
ISBN-10 | : 1409590771 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Download or read book Yankee Girl written by Mary Ann Rodman and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.