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Yankee Girl

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By Mary Ann Rodman
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Yankee Girl
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Mississippi and integration in the 1960s The year is 1964, and Alice Ann Moxleys FBIagent 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 sixthgrade 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 isnt 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 coconspirator 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.

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43753 words43,753 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile 550LLexile 550L
Grade 4 to 8Grade 4 to 8
Published 2004Published 2004

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Book ISBN:

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