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White lilacs / Carolyn Meyer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.M5685 Whi 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Texas--Juvenile fiction.
- Texas.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Texas--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 242 pages : map, genealogical table ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace & Company, [©1993]
- Summary:
- In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town.
- Notes:
- "Gulliver books."
- "Designed by Camilla Filancia"--t.p. verso.
- "Map by Eric Hanson."
- "First edition."
- "Cover illustration copyright 1993 by Jerry Pinkney."--Page 4 of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has post-it note "Return to Phyllis" on preliminary page [1].
- Other Format:
- Online version: Meyer, Carolyn, 1935- White lilacs.
- ISBN:
- 0152006419
- 9780152006419
- 0152006265
- 9780152006266
- 0152958762
- 9780152958763
- OCLC:
- 26765608
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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