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Ever since Tollie and Slocum can remember, the girls have spent their summers together in the heat of Budding Grove, Georgia, where Slocum's grandmother lives in a stately house. Toillie is a black orphan, taken in by Grandmother English. Slocum, who lives most of the year in Philadelphia with her parents, is white. Now, at the beginning of the summer when they are twelve, Tollie suddenly shouts, "I'm a nigger, and you're not!" A story of what happens when two young girls are first confronted with the irrational ugliness of ethnicism in a small southern community.
Fiurst published in 1970 but set in mid century America, this is an unflinching portrait of racial differfence ( real and imagined) as seen through the eyes of two young girls.
For older YA readers, 113-14 up, or adults.
This edition, Scholastic , 1975, in very good condition, small format paperbcak sunning and fade to spine. Code TK3157 printed to spine.
