In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
The road to Memphis
290 pages
English language
Published 1992 by Scholastic Inc., Scholastic.
Subjects
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Mississippi -- Juvenile fiction
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