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<p><b>A distinctive new voice in children's fiction</b></p> <p>Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North.</p> <p>Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't kept, and Francie painfully learns that her dreams of starting junior high school in an integrated urban classroom will go unfulfilled. Amid the day-to-day grind of working odd jobs for wealthy white folks on the other side of town, Francie becomes involved in helping a framed young black man to escape arrest — a brave gesture, but one that puts the entire black community in danger. In this vivid portrait of a girl in the pre—Civil Rights era South, first-time novelist Karen English completes Francie's world using lively vernacular and a wide array of flesh-and-blood characters.&nbsp;<i>Francie</i> is a 2000 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.</p> <p>When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship. </p>

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