Title: The road to Memphis
Description: In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
Subjects: Fiction, Race relations, Juvenile fiction, Prejudices, African Americans, Coretta Scott King Award, Blacks, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Values & Virtues, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Children's fiction, Travel, fiction, Tennessee, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, African americans, fiction
Places: Mississippi