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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
1959

1959

Davis, Thulani

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ISBN10: 0802138314
ISBN13: 9780802138316
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: Aug 27 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

A powerful, poignant coming-of-age novel that captures a dramatic moment in American history as clearly as a photograph.

It's the summer of 1959 and Willie Tarrant of Turner, Virginia, is twelve. Her father and other adults in the town are worried about integration--how it will affect their children's safety and the quality of their education--but for Willie it's just another problem she's going to have to deal with, like her chores and beginning to go out with boys. Willie and her friends--kids from good families with good grades--are being groomed to be sent in the first wave. Before this can happen, though, eight black college students, wearing suits and fresh haircuts, go into the Woolworth's lunch counter--changing everything.

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