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Rodman, Mary Ann

Yankee Girl

219 pp. | Farrar | April, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-374-38661-7 $$17.00
(3) 4-6 Alice, the daughter of an FBI agent, and her family move from Chicago to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964. Longing to fit in, Alice struggles with her classmates' racism toward the only black girl in their newly integrated class. Based on the author's own childhood, the novel explores the moral choices faced by children and the price of courage.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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