In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: families, virginia, fiction, school integration, schools, race relations, african americans, family life, diaries, school stories, virginia, history, 20th century, fiction, historical fiction, diary fiction