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eBook details
- Title: Last Days in Africville
- Author : Dorothy Perkyns
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Social Issues,Books,Kids,Fiction,Young Adult,Culture, Places & People,Coming of Age,Coming of Age,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 740 KB
Description
Short-listed for the 2004 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, for the 2005 Diamond Willow Award and for the 2005 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award
On the shores of Bedford Basin in Halifax, 12-year-old Selina Palmer is growing up in the community of Africville in the 1960s. Struggling with what it means to be the only black student in her Grade 6 class, Selina takes comfort in the fact that every day she goes home to a loving and vibrant neighbourhood, where friends and family accept her as she is. But ugly rumours are starting to surface about the fate of Africville…