The Friendship
by Mildred D. Taylor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/poor and tattered
- ISBN 10
- 0803704186
- ISBN 13
- 9780803704183
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dial books for young people, 1987. ex-library. Hardcover. Fair/poor and tattered. Max Ginsburg. this is an ex-library book from a Portland school library there is a crayon Mark on a few of the pages one a squiggle Mark, another a line..not great shape but perfectly readable..it has a cover like they put with library books the glossy plastic he with numerous stickers thedust jacket underneath each protective cover has a terror on the fold path on the back page it looks like someone tore out the check-in checkout card, however it's still perfectly readable and after reading it's actually a very nice story....it's a 53 page children's book summary for children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s the authors note says she was born the South didn't corrupt their she was three months old when her parents took her sister and she's live in the North however over the years of her childhood which Kagan of the South root yearly trips with family to Mississippi and stories told one family gathered through the story she learned history about her family going back to the days slavery. The stories are learned history nothing taught in history books, history about the often tragic lives of black people living in the segregated land. My father told many stories. Some the stories he had been told . Some of the stories he actually himself. The friendship is based on one of those stories
Synopsis
Cassie witnesses a black man address a white storekeeper by his first name. "A powerful story . . .Readers will be haunted by its drama and emotion long after they have closed the book." -- Booklist
Reviews
On Feb 23 2009, Paigeglassstubgreenkyschools said:
mr.tom bee and john wallace used to be friends because tom saved johns life
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Details
- Seller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 625
- Title
- The Friendship
- Author
- Mildred D. Taylor
- Illustrator
- Max Ginsburg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- poor and tattered
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- ex-library
- ISBN 10
- 0803704186
- ISBN 13
- 9780803704183
- Publisher
- Dial books for young people
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- fiction children Afro-Americans, race relations prejudices, Ginsburg Max, Mildred D Taylor ISBN 0803704178 the friendship
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction children black;
Terms of Sale
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Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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Los Angeles, California
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