Ruby's war
By: Johanna Winard
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Magna
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780750539906
Subjects: Race discrimination; World War, 1939-1945; History; African Americans; African American soldiers; Fiction
Description: In the autumn of 1942, fifteen year old Ruby is collected from her aunt's guesthouse by her grandfather. She is taken to live with him in a village in industrial Lancashire, where a few days after her arrival a number of US Quartermaster Truck Companies of black troops take over a nearby camp. Before long tension rises between the newly arrived troops and the locals, many of whom still have embedded racial prejudices. As the town becomes divided, Ruby and her friends must struggle with adolescence, illicit love, dangerous friendships and the difficulty of doing what is right in a chaotic and unfair world.