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English, Karen

Francie

199 pp. | Farrar | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-32456-5 $$16.00
(2) 4-6 As a young black girl, Francie suffers constant injustices in rural Alabama in the early 1950s, but at school, book-loving Francie shines, and she is called on to teach sixteen-year-old Jesse Pruit to read. Her help becomes far more vital--and dangerous--when Jesse is accused of the attempted murder of a white man. Readers will cheer Francie and her brave mother, from whom she inherits her rare and honest gutsiness.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1999

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