Title: Yankee Girl
Description: It's 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed 'Yankee Girl' and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie - one of the school's first black students - has it much worse.

Alice can't stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up.
It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes
Subjects: School integration, Race relations, African Americans, Juvenile fiction, History
Places: Mississippi
People: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Time periods: 1964