Crossing the Line (eBook)

Bibi Belford (Autor)

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2017
304 Seiten
Sky Pony Press (Verlag)
9781510708013 (ISBN)

Infos

For readers of The Lions of Little Rock and P. S. Be Eleven, an award-winning middle grade novel inspired by the true events leading up to the 1919 Chicago race riots.Some people think there's a line, and if everybody stays on their side of the line, then we'll all get along just fine. That's what Billy's da told him, back before he joined up in the Great War. Da said that sometimes, to do what's right, you gotta cross that line. Course, that was before the war ended and Billy's da came home with shell shock. Now it's up to Billy to be man of the house, to take care of his ma and sisters and work at the docks when he can. He ain't no coward, and he don't complain, not even when money troubles mean he has to change schools. It's hard times for all the Irishmaybe even for all of Chicago. And it gets harder when Billy becomes friends with Foster, a black boy who loves baseball and whose daddy went to war, too. What seems like just horsing around to thembuilding a raft, spending time in their secret hideout by the creekstirs up trouble when the rest of the city gets wind of it. Soon, the boys' friendship has triggered a series of events that will change both their lives forever. And with racial tensions in the city coming to a head, Billy must decide once and for all what it means to be courageous, to be a friend, and to truly cross the line.

Autor

Bibi Belford is the author of Canned and Crushed. She graduated with a BA in English from Westmont College and completed her master’s in bilingual literacy at Northern Illinois University. She’s been a classroom teacher, reading teacher, and literacy coach in East Aurora, Illinois’s elementary schools.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Religion / Philosophie / Psychologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionist • American History • Antebellum • black nanny • Blacks • black slaves • black woman • books on white babies • books on white daughters break stor • breaking story • children's home • Civil War • close relationship • cruelty • english children • enslaved • female slave • field slave • Gran • happy endings • harsh realities • heart breaking • heartbreaking story • heart wrenching • horrible time • house slaves • human relationships • Human Spirit • Kleenex • laila ibrahim • lisabeth • Lisbeth • lizabeth • lizbeth • mammy • nursemaid • nurse mattie • Ohio • Orphanages • Orphans • Peculiar institution • plantation life • plantation owners • Plantations • post war slave girl • pre civil • pre-civil war • Reet • Rita • Rosie • sad time • slave owners • slavery era • slave woman • southern plantation • strong bond • tear jerker • throwaway children • touching story • treat children • trying times • Underground Railroad • war era • wet-nurse • Wet nurse • white babies • white child • white children • white daughter • white family • White Girl • white plantation • white woman • white women • wrenching story • WW II • yellow crocus
• ISBN-13: 9781510708013 / 9781510708013