Yankee Girl

Name: Yankee Girl
Brand: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Price: 9.83 EUR
Availability: InStock

★★★★★

4.09 (801 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Mary Ann Rodman

Its 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 schools first black students has it much worse.

Alice cant 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.

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Product Details

Weight: 219g
Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2017
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 9-11
ISBN13: 9780746067499

About Mary Ann Rodman

Mary Ann Rodman wanted to be a writer since the age of three but was only inspired to write Yankee Girl her first novel after leaving her job as a librarian and moving to Thailand. The experience of dealing with a completely different culture reminded her of her childhood years spent in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960s. Mary Ann moved to Mississippi when her father an FBI agent was sent there to investigate hate crimes during the civil rights movement. Mary Ann Rodman is married with one daughter and now lives in Alpharetta Georgia.