Title: Yankee Girl
Description: When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
Subjects: Race relations, African Americans, Fiction, School integration, Schools, Civil rights workers, Friendship, History, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Race relations, fiction, Schools, fiction, Friendship, fiction, African americans, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, fiction
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century