Title: Yard war
Description: Inviting his African-American maid's son to his home in 1964 Mississippi so that they can play football together, 12-year-old Trip is surprised when his grandparents and several neighbors disapprove of the friendship.
Subjects: Neighbors, Race relations, Families, Nineteen sixties, Juvenile fiction, Racism, African Americans, Football stories, History, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Family, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Neighbors, fiction, Football, fiction, Race relations, fiction
Places: Mississippi, Jackson (Miss.)