Yankee Girl
by Mary Ann Rodman
Yankee Girl · READ MORE
- Characters: Alice Andreeson
- Genres: historical, childrens, fiction, cultural, juvenile
- Language: english
- Awards: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Nominee (2008)
- Release date: April 11, 2004
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- ISBN: 9780374386610 (0374386617)
- Author: Mary Ann Rodman
- Format: hardcover, 224 pages
About The Book
Mississippi and integration in the 1960s
The year is 1964, and Alice Ann Moxley’s FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to Jackson, Mississippi, to protect black people who are registering to vote. Alice finds herself thrust into the midst of the racial turmoil that dominates current events, especially when a Negro girl named Valerie Taylor joins her sixth-grade class — the first of two black students at her new school because of a mandatory integration law. When Alice finds it difficult to penetrate the clique of girls at school she calls the Cheerleaders (they call her Yankee Girl), she figures Valerie, being the other outsider, will be easier to make friends with. But Valerie isn’t looking for friends. Rather, Valerie silently endures harassment from the Cheerleaders, much worse than what Alice is put through. Soon Alice realizes the only way to befriend the girls is to seem like a co-conspirator in their plans to make Valerie miserable. It takes a horrible tragedy for her to realize the complete ramifications of following the crowd instead of her heart.
An unflinching story about racism and culture clash in the 1960s.
TXT Yankee Girl download on Bookshop. Hardback book Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman for Android. EPUB ebook Yankee Girl read online Kindle on IndieBound.
Hardcover ebook Yankee Girl Mary Ann Rodman buy cheap. Online Yankee Girl buy on iOS. PDF book Yankee Girl Mary Ann Rodman on Audible.
.
