TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weaver, Lila Quintero,
TI  - My year in the middle
SN  - 9781536213171
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2020///.
CY  - Somerville, MA : 
PB  - Candlewick Press, 
KW  - Nineteen seventies
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Segregation in education
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigrant children
KW  - Argentines
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Track and field athletes
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Racism
KW  - Middle schools
KW  - Schools
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes author's note and questions to consider
N2  - 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?
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