It's 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed 'Yankee Girl' and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie - one of the school's first black students - has it much worse.
Alice can't stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up. It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes.
Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Girl is a powerful, resonant and relevant story about racism and doing the right thing.
| ISBN: | 9780746067499 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2005 |
| Author: | Mary Ann Rodman |
| Publisher: | Usborne Publishing Ltd. an imprint of Usborne Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 276 pages |
| Series: | Usborne Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism PSHE: Bullying and Discrimination |