Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
Alice just moved from Chicago to Mississippi, and she's the new girl that is called "Yankee girl".
The accent and southern customs are the least of her problems, the year is 1964, when the Ku Klux Klan is going strong and just to make it worse, Alice's dad is an FBI agent, who was assigned to protect black people who are registering to vote, and FBI agents are one of the main target of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan).
Later, Valerie Taylor, a black girl, joins Alice's class, the 1st 2 black students of Parnell, as a result to the new integration law. She is shunned and bullied by the popular "cheerleaders".
Alice yearns to be popular, and a part of the clique called The "Cheerleaders", who is lead by the tart tongued Saranne, but soon Alice realizes how hard it is to the this clique, and figures out that Valerie, the other outsider, is a likely easy friend, but as it seems Valerie is not looking for friends, and if Alice was to join the clique, she would be rivals and be part of the way that the "Cheerleaders" are making Valerie's life miserable.
Later a tragedy-filled event happens that turns a characters life around.
Will Alice and Valerie be friends? Will Alice be a part of the "Cheerleaders"? What is the tragedy-filled event? Read Yankee Girl to find out!
I liked this book, it's one of the best Historical Fiction book i ever read, (i haven't read much, but this is still a very good book) it is realistic, and you can relate to the characters, and how they feel when Valerie comes. This book I read for a Historical Fiction project I'm doing, and surprisingly this is a better book than it sounds.
Alice just moved from Chicago to Mississippi, and she's the new girl that is called "Yankee girl".
The accent and southern customs are the least of her problems, the year is 1964, when the Ku Klux Klan is going strong and just to make it worse, Alice's dad is an FBI agent, who was assigned to protect black people who are registering to vote, and FBI agents are one of the main target of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan).
Later, Valerie Taylor, a black girl, joins Alice's class, the 1st 2 black students of Parnell, as a result to the new integration law. She is shunned and bullied by the popular "cheerleaders".
Alice yearns to be popular, and a part of the clique called The "Cheerleaders", who is lead by the tart tongued Saranne, but soon Alice realizes how hard it is to the this clique, and figures out that Valerie, the other outsider, is a likely easy friend, but as it seems Valerie is not looking for friends, and if Alice was to join the clique, she would be rivals and be part of the way that the "Cheerleaders" are making Valerie's life miserable.
Later a tragedy-filled event happens that turns a characters life around.
Will Alice and Valerie be friends? Will Alice be a part of the "Cheerleaders"? What is the tragedy-filled event? Read Yankee Girl to find out!
I liked this book, it's one of the best Historical Fiction book i ever read, (i haven't read much, but this is still a very good book) it is realistic, and you can relate to the characters, and how they feel when Valerie comes. This book I read for a Historical Fiction project I'm doing, and surprisingly this is a better book than it sounds.
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