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Yankee Girl


Usborne Modern Classics

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Great for age 9-18 years
It's 1964 and Alice Anne Moxley has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. She is nicknamed "Yankee Girl" and taunted by the popular girls at school, although she soon discovers the other new girl, Valerie - the school's first black student - suffers much worse.

 

This book is part of a book series called Usborne Modern Classics .

This book was published 2014 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Mary Ann Rodman was inspired to write Yankee Girl, her first novel, after leaving her job as a librarian and moving to Thailand. The experience of dealing with a completely different culture reminded her of her childhood years spent in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s. Mary Ann moved to Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement when her father, an FBI agent, was sent to work there. Mary Ann now lives in Alpharetta, Georgia.

This book is in the following series:

Usborne Modern Classics

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Georgia Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Georgia Children's Book Award.

Great Stone Face Book Award
This book was recognised by the Great Stone Face Book Award.

Golden Sower Award
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Golden Sower Award.

William Allen White Childens Book Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the William Allen White Childens Book Award.

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
This book was recognised by the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award.

Rhode Island Book Awards
This book was recognised by the Rhode Island Book Awards.

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