In small-town Texas in the mid-1950s, twelve-year-old Silvy tries to make sense of her parent's financial problems, a Supreme Court ruling that will integrate her school, the prejudice of her family and friends, and her own behavior, which always seems to be wrong.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: race relations, fiction, school integration, friendship, prejudices, african americans, history, 20th century, texas, history, 1951-, fiction