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Description

1. 308 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He's going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer--or maybe both--and live in a big brick house in town. There'll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won't have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his class--particularly those about famous colored people like Mr. Thurgood Marshall and Miss Marian Wright--and borrowing books from his teacher's bookshelf. When Mr. Foster presents him with a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ellis Earl is amazed to encounter a family that's even worse off than his own--and is delighted by the Buckets' very happy ending. But when Mama tells Ellis Earl that he might need to quit school to help support the family, he wonders if happy endings are only possible in storybooks. Around the historical touchstone of Robert Kennedy's southern "poverty tour," Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell a detail-rich and poignant story with memorable characters, sure to resonate with readers who have ever felt constricted by their circumstances."--

Subject

1. 1961-1969
2. African American children > Juvenile fiction
3. African Americans > Juvenile fiction
4. African American families > Juvenile fiction
5. Poverty > Juvenile fiction
6. Racism > Juvenile fiction
7. Schools > Juvenile fiction
8. African American children
9. African Americans
10. Poverty
11. Race relations
12. Racism
13. Racism against Black people
14. African American families
15. Schools
16. Mississippi > Juvenile fiction
17. United States > History > 1961-1969 > Juvenile fiction
18. United States > Race relations > Juvenile fiction
19. United States
20. Mississippi

Genre/Form

1. Historical fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. History.
4. Juvenile works.
5. Social problem fiction.

Call number

1. Sc D 23-383

Note

1. "Award-winning author of Midnight Without a Moon"--Dust jacket.

Author

1. Jackson, Linda Williams, author.

Title

1. The lucky ones / Linda Williams Jackson.

Publisher

1. Somerville, Massachuetts : Candlewick Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological term

1. 1961-1969

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2021947068

ISBN

1. 9781536222555 (hardcover)
2. 1536222550 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. Sc D 23-383