Alligator bayou
By: Donna Jo Napoli.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780385746540; 9780385908917
Subjects: Prejudices -- Fiction; Italian Americans -- Fiction; Uncles -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Country life -- Louisiana -- Fiction; Louisiana -- History -- 1865-1950 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.