Equal (Bakers Mountain Tales)
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It is the summer season of 1959 on the foot of Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina when 13-year-old Jackie Honeycutt first bumps into Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. They hit it off, and Jackie hopes the 2 of them might be mates. However Jackie is white, and Thomas is Black — and Jackie shortly learns their rising friendship will not be straightforward. North Carolina is the main target of the rising civil rights motion, and thru his friendship with Thomas, Jackie experiences racism and prejudice first-hand by bullying in school, household turmoil and stress from his neighborhood. Can Jackie free each his conscience and his voice – and in the end do what’s proper?
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The fifth & closing title within the widespread Bakers Mountain Tales collection
A riveting coming-of-age story concerning the significance of staying true to your self and the important energy of friendship.
Can enemies turn into mates?
It is the summer season of 1959 on the foot of Bakers Mountain in western North Carolina when 13-year-old Jackie Honeycutt first bumps into Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. They hit it off, and Jackie hopes the 2 of them might be mates. However Jackie is white, and Thomas is Black — and Jackie shortly learns their rising friendship will not be straightforward.
North Carolina is the main target of the rising civil rights motion, and thru his friendship with Thomas, Jackie experiences racism and prejudice first-hand by bullying in school, household turmoil and stress from his neighborhood.
Can Jackie free each his conscience and his voice – and in the end do what’s proper?
For the courageous ones who dare to take a seat, stand, and kneel for the reason for equality.
——Joyce Moyer Hostetter, winner of the Worldwide Studying Affiliation Youngsters’s E-book Award.
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