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Only on Rainy Days
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781684339105
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: Mar 31 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1956, two white children find out about racial prejudice when a black family with two kids moves into their previously all-white neighborhood in Buffalo.
Watching the black children endure taunts and cruel pranks at the hands of their classmates, the white kids adopt a cavalier attitude. Then, on summer vacation, when they visit their grandmother in the South, the white children find themselves being treated differently because-as Notherners-they don't fit in.
Although they only get a taste of what the black kids have to tolerate, they return home with a new perspective on prejudice. Despite peer pressure from their classmates-and no real guidance from their indifferent parents-they start a tentative friendship with the black children.
That growing relationship, however, is jeopardized when the black children's father is arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
The only way to clear their friends' father, who must now defend himself in court, is for an eyewitness to come forward with the truth-before it's too late.
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