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<p><P>The Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel, set in the 1940s segregated South, of a girl whose act of moral courage endangers her family.</p><h3>Horn Book</h3><p>(Intermediate)<BR> Almost thirteen-year-old Francie finds it difficult to tolerate the inequities that her time, place, and race impose on her, and she speaks up for herself in scenes that will bring Mildred Taylor's Roll of <I>Thunder, Hear My Cry</I> to mind. From the first sentence, straightforward Francie owns up to her transgressions but doesn't let others off easily (I did something to that cat, I admit it. But that cat did something to me first). It helps that Francie and her mother and younger brother believe that their days in rural Alabama in the early 1950s will soon be behind them: their father has promised to send for them when his job as a Pullman porter in Chicago permits it. In the meantime, Francie suffers constant injustices when she accompanies her mother at her domestic jobs for white folks; when her overworked, frustrated mother lashes out against her; when she is falsely accused of lying and stealing in the white-owned drugstore. But at school, book-loving Francie shines, and she is called on to

Author

English, Karen

Publisher

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374324568

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile

Rating

3.76 / 5 (110 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14