Title: Alligator bayou
Description: Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules, and tension between the Negro and white communities. He's startled and thrilled by the danger of a 'gator hunt in the midnight bayou, and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharpwitted, sweet-natured Negro girl. Some people welcome the Sicilians. Most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle: the whites don't see them as equal, but befriending Negroes is dangerous. Every day brings Calogero and his family closer to a a terrifying, violent confrontation.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Race relations, Louisiana in fiction, Uncles, Prejudices in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Race relations in fiction, Italian Americans in fiction, Fiction, Uncles in fiction, Italian Americans, Prejudices, Historical Fiction, Country life, Country life in fiction, History, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Country life, fiction, Louisiana, fiction, Family, fiction, Historical fiction
Places: Louisiana
Time periods: 1865-1950, 19th century