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: | 1st August 2017 |
| Author: | Mary Ann Rodman |
| Publisher: | Usborne Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Usborne Modern Classics |