Augusta Scattergood
Scholastic Press
202 pg.
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
Augusta Scattergood
Scholastic Press
202 pg.
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Lunch-Box Dream by Tony Abbott
Farrar Straus Giroux
2011
178p.
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
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