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Glory be / Augusta Scattergood.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scattergood, Augusta.
Contributor:
Youth Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Segregation--Juvenile fiction.
Segregation.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations.
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters.
City and town life--Mississippi--Juvenile fiction.
City and town life.
Mississippi--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi.
Segregation--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
City and town life--Mississippi--Fiction.
Mississippi--History--20th century--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Physical Description:
202 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Scholastic, 2015.
Summary:
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Contents:
Couldn't Hardly Spit
Spying
Laura Lampert Comes to Town
Me and Emma and Nancy Drew
Jesslyn Pitches a Fit
Twirling Fire
Here's What's Broken
Letters to the Tribune
A Firecracker Blew Off His Finger
J.T. Stinks
Mis B. Says Hogwash!
Old Lady Simpson Slams the Door
Jesslyn's Big Fat Lie
Trying to Breathe Under a Blanket
Hot, Squished, Itching
Almost Dark
Cross My Heart
The Storm on Sunday
Dinner Table Disaster
If I Lived to be a Hundred
Bald-faced Lie
A Heap of Trouble
For Dang Sure
Patches
Black and Blue and Ugly
Hanging Moss Hornets
Glory Be
A Tornado Went Through
A Smile as Big as Mississippi
Books Don't Care Who Reads Them
What All I Learned This Summer
Author's Note
Acknowledgments.
Notes:
"This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic Press in 2012."
Bluebonnet award, 2013-2014
ISBN:
0545331811
9780545331814
OCLC:
904252004

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