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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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| Summary |
It's 1964 in Jackson, Mississippi, deep in the civil rights movement, and the one black person twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook knows well is Willie Jane, the family maid, who has been a second mother to him. When Trip invites her son, Dee, to play football in the yard, Trip discovers the ugly side of his smiling neighbors. Even his loving grandparents don't approve. But getting to know Dee and playing football, being part of a team, changes Trip. He begins to see all the unspoken rules he lives by but doesn't agree with, such as respect your elders. What if he thinks their views are wrong? This engaging, honest, and hopeful novel is full of memorable characters, and brings the civil rights--era South alive for young readers. |
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770 Lexile. |
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770L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 7 175802 |
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Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 7 175802 |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
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Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Football stories.
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Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Mississippi -- Juvenile fiction.
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Nineteen sixties -- Juvenile fiction.
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Racism -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Football -- Fiction.
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Neighbors -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
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Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
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African Americans. |
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Families. |
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Football stories. |
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Neighbors. |
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Nineteen sixties. |
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Race relations. |
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Racism. |
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Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
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Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Mississippi. |
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Mississippi -- Jackson. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Kitchings, Taylor. Yard war New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2015] 9780553507539 (DLC) 2014040326 (OCoLC)895388407 |
| ISBN |
9780553507553 : $20.97 |
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0553507559 : $20.97 |
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