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Weaver, Lila Quintero,

My year in the middle / Lila Quintero Weaver. - first paperback edition. - Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2020. - 268 pages ; 20 cm

Includes author's note and questions to consider.

It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom. Six-grader Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. Her old friends have been changing lately--acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow runner Belinda Gresham, but blacks and whites don't mix. Will Lu find the gumption to stand up for what's right? And find friends who will stand with her?

ISBN: 9781536213171 1536213179

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nineteen seventies--Juvenile fiction.
Segregation in education--United States --Juvenile fiction.--United States --Juvenile fiction.
Immigrant children--Juvenile fiction
Argentines--United States --Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Civil rights--History --Juvenile fiction.--Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights movements--History --20th century --Juvenile fiction.
Track and field athletes--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Racism--Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Alabama--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]