Champions of the world
By: written by Sara Harrell Banks.
Publisher: Peachtree
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Subjects: Boardinghouses -- Fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Family life -- Alabama -- Fiction; Alabama -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1937 Alabama, eleven-year-old Brother helps with his mother's boardinghouse, gains insight into prejudice when he befriends the nephew of the family's maid, and dreams of riding a train one day with the railroadmen who serve as his substitute fathers.