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Prince Edward (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781504074193)
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xThe profound coming-of-age story of a young boy growing up in rural Virginia, and the historic summer that would change his life forever
During the summer of 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County is entirely consumed by passionate resistance against, and in other corners, support for, the desegregation of schools as mandated by Brown v. Board of Education. Benjamin Rome, the ten-year-old son of a chicken farmer in one of the county's small townships, struggles to comprehend the furor that surrounds him, even as he understands the immorality of racial prejudice. Within his own family, opinions are sharply divided, and it is against this charged backdrop that Ben spends the summer working with his friend Burghardt, a black farmhand, under the predatory gaze of Ben's grandfather.
While the elders of Prince Edward focus on closing the schools, life ambles on, and Ben grows closer to his pregnant sister, Lainie, and his troubled older brother, Al, while also coming to recognize the painful and inherent limitations of his friendship with Burghardt.
Evocative and written with lush historical detail, Prince Edward is a refreshing bildungsroman by bestselling author Dennis McFarland, and a striking portrait of the social upheaval in the American South on the eve of the civil rights movement.
Author: Dennis McFarland
ISBN-10: 150407419X
ISBN-13: 9781504074193
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 105183 / Prince Edward
During the summer of 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County is entirely consumed by passionate resistance against, and in other corners, support for, the desegregation of schools as mandated by Brown v. Board of Education. Benjamin Rome, the ten-year-old son of a chicken farmer in one of the county's small townships, struggles to comprehend the furor that surrounds him, even as he understands the immorality of racial prejudice. Within his own family, opinions are sharply divided, and it is against this charged backdrop that Ben spends the summer working with his friend Burghardt, a black farmhand, under the predatory gaze of Ben's grandfather.
While the elders of Prince Edward focus on closing the schools, life ambles on, and Ben grows closer to his pregnant sister, Lainie, and his troubled older brother, Al, while also coming to recognize the painful and inherent limitations of his friendship with Burghardt.
Evocative and written with lush historical detail, Prince Edward is a refreshing bildungsroman by bestselling author Dennis McFarland, and a striking portrait of the social upheaval in the American South on the eve of the civil rights movement.
Author: Dennis McFarland
ISBN-10: 150407419X
ISBN-13: 9781504074193
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 334
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 105183 / Prince Edward
By Dennis McFarland
xDennis McFarland is a bestselling author of novels and stories. His short fiction has appeared in the American Scholar, the New Yorker, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, where he has also taught creative writing. He lives in rural Vermont with his wife, writer and poet Michelle Blake.
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