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Flying South
Age 11+
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It's the sticky-hot summer of 1968, and in the American Deep South it's a time of home-made lemonade and The Beatles on the radio, but also civil rights rioting and Vietnam war protests. Even for Alice the storm clouds are gathering.
Her mother's new boyfriend crashed into Alice's life and upsets the delicate balance of the household with his prejudiced attitudes towards Edna, the maid, and Doc, the family gardener. Alice desperately wants to do what's right, and she knows she has some had choices to make...
Flying South is a captivating coming-of-age story about the power of friendship and truth.
- Extent:
- 192 pages
- Dimensions:
- 198 x 130mm
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780746073810
- Accelerated Reader Book Level:
- 4.4
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level:
- Middle years (MY)
- Key Stage:
- KS3
- Publication Date:
- January 2003
- Work Reference:
- 00559
Flying South is set in the deep South of a trouble-torn USA in the '60s. However, set apart from all the Vietnam war protests, assassinations and civil rights rioting, Alice is growing up a lonely child with only her mother's house servants, the elderly Doc who looks after the garden and teaches Alice how to care for his beloved roses, and Edna for company.
She has no knowledge of race hatred until her widowed mother starts seeing a man whose loudly-stated beliefs upset Alice's world and when marriage seems likely it precipitates a crisis for the young girl.
Starting gently, the book slowly builds so that the reader becomes aware of the tensions and passions of the time. An interesting read for the 10-plus.
This coming-of-age novel gives a graphic picture of the swirling social and political matters that preoccupied Americans and many others during the mid sixties.
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