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Yard war
Title:
Yard war
Author:
Kitchings, Taylor, author.
Publication Date as Range:
2015
ISBN:
9780553507539

9780553507546

9780553507560
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
216 pages ; 22 cm
Abstract:
Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.
Reading Level:
770 L Lexile
Subject Term:
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.

Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Football stories -- Juvenile fiction.

Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Nineteen sixties -- Juvenile fiction.

Football -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Tween fiction.
Lexile Measure:
770 L
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