num_pages: 84
description: One hot summer in the early 1900s, all the wells in David Logan's part of Mississippi have gone dry - except their family's. But David doesn't want to share the water with one white racist white boy, Charlie, and the tensions between the two of them build and build until they eventually explode.
language: English
title: The Well
titlecomplete: The Well
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, African American, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race, Juvenile
ratings_count: 1865
series: Logans
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks