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A Friendship for Today

A Friendship for Today

Hardcover

General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 043966098X
ISBN13: 9780439660983
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.68 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Award, California Young Reader Medal, Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, Delaware Diamonds Award, Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award, Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, Sasquatch Award, Sequoyah Book Awards, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, William Allen White Childens Book Award, Young Hoosier Book Award
From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Patricia McKissack comes a powerful, poignant, and timely tale of segregation, family, and one surprising friendship.
The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the first African American students to enter the white school in her town. Headstrong, smart Rosemary welcomes the challenge, but starting this new school gets more daunting when her best friend is hospitalized for polio. Suddenly, Rosemary must face all the stares and whispers alone. But when the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante, Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome prejudice.

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