Going North (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Going North (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) Book

An African American family becomes a new kind of pioneerLeaving behind Big Mama, loving relatives, and the familiar red soil and cotton fields of Alabama, Jessie and her family are going north to Nebraska. They are pioneers searching for a better life, one with decent schools and jobs. But traveling through the segregated South is difficult for an African American family in the 1960s. With most public places reserved for "whites only," where will they stop to get gas and food?Lyrical free verse and evocative paintings capture the rhythm of the road and a young girl's longing as she wonders: Will I like it there? Will I like the North?Read More

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  • 0374326819
  • 9780374326814
  • Janice N. Harrington, Jerome Lagarrigue
  • 8 September 2004
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 40
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