Yankee Girl
- ISBN10: 0746067496
- ISBN13: 9780746067499
- Author: Mary Ann Rodman
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Published: 01/08/2017
£6.99
Alice has just moved to Mississippi from Chicago. Nicknamed `Yankee Girl’ and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie – one of the school’s first black students – has it much worse.
Set in the 1960s Deep South, Yankee Girl is a powerful, resonant and relevant story about racism and doing the right thing.
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It’s 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 school’s first black students – has it much worse.
Alice can’t 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.