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Beschreibung
Two teen friends, one black and one white, weather the fallout of school integration together in their hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.Sixteen-year-old William McNally and fifteen-year-old Thomas Johnson both live in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the summer of 1957. They both love baseball and teasing their little sisters. There’s just one big difference—William is white, and Thomas, the son of William’s family’s maid, is black. After the Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregating public schools, Little Rock Central High School prepares to enroll its first nine African American students, and William and Thomas are caught in the center of a storm.
Two teen friends, one black and one white, weather the fallout of school integration together in their hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.Sixteen-year-old William McNally and fifteen-year-old Thomas Johnson both live in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the summer of 1957. They both love baseball and teasing their little sisters. There’s just one big difference—William is white, and Thomas, the son of William’s family’s maid, is black. After the Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregating public schools, Little Rock Central High School prepares to enroll its first nine African American students, and William and Thomas are caught in the center of a storm.
Über den Autor
Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor, and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of nonfiction authors. He has taught Russian, European, Eurasian, and world history at various universities including Harvard, Columbia, University of Iowa, and, currently, the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Poe is the author or editor of a number of books for children and adults.
Details
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Turning Points
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781416950660
ISBN-10: 1416950664
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Poe, Marshall
Illustrator: Lindner, Ellen
Hersteller: Aladdin
Turning Points
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 133 x 9 mm
Von/Mit: Marshall Poe
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2008
Gewicht: 0,173 kg
Artikel-ID: 102054992