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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780140389647
ISBN number: 0140389644
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 56
Printing Date: February 01, 1998
Publishing house: Puffin
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 117889
Studio: Puffin
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Product Description:
Cassie Logan and her brothers have been warned never to go to the Wallace store, so they know to expect trouble there. What they don't expect is to hear Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly grey man, daring to call the white storekeeper by his very first name. The year is 1933, the place is Mississippi, and any child knows that some things just aren't done. Black & white illustrations .
Amazon.com Review:
It's hot and humid in 1933 Mississippi, when an elderly grey man and a white store owner test their friendship against a backdrop of racism and peer pressure. An explosive confrontation takes place when the grey man, Tom Bee, greets the clerk, John Wallace, by his very first name--an intimacy unheard of at the time. A group of witnesses heckles Wallace for what they perceive as his permissiveness, and in spite of his private promise to Bee to allow him to greet him this way, Wallace betrays Bee, shooting him in the leg. This brief but poignant story won the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award. It provides strong characterization as well as food for discusion on racism and human relations.
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thi is a book about grey people tht try to get in a white bar, when the grey people go to the bar all of the white people are mean to th grey people. they threaten to chop off a young grey childs hands. this was a good book, i did not like it as much as the well though...this is one of the best books Mildred D. Taylour has probably ever wrote.
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I did not realy like this book. It was an example of how whites treated blacks. It was kind of short and did not realy go into details to let you know the story. It just gave you enough to know what they were talking about. It would be best for ages about 8. It does not have bad language but it is not good for younger kids.
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I guess it was a pretty good book, but other kids will have to read it themselves. this book was about 3 boys and 1 girl, they have this friendship but at the end of the book this guy named john shot Mr. Tom Bee, and that's how I rate this book, a 2.
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I thought that this was a pretty good book . In the story these boys went to this market to get there aunt Callies head medicine. When they got there they saw a family friend that was going there to get his sardines and some candy canes. The boy that was there would not give him what he wanted so he asked for the owner and he came out to see what the problem was and he gave him what he asked for. When he went back in there to get some tabacco the guy who owns the market shot him in the leg.
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I thought that this was a pretty good book. I would defanately recamen this to other readers. The book ended in a wierd spot but it was good.
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