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Yard war
Title:
Yard war
JLCTITLE245:
Taylor Kitchings.
Personal Author:
Kitchings, Taylor, author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, [2015]
Physical Description:
216 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780553507539

9780553507546

9780553507560
Abstract:
Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.
Reading Level:
770 L Lexile
Subject Term:
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.

Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Football stories.

Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Mississippi -- Juvenile fiction.

Nineteen sixties -- Juvenile fiction.

Racism -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Football -- Fiction.

Neighbors -- Fiction.

Family life -- Mississippi -- Fiction.

Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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