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Lunch-Box Dream

by Tony Abbott
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Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields on the eve of the war's centenary, while inside their car, quiet battles rage. When an accident cuts their trip short, they return home on a bus and witness an incident that threatens to deny a black family seats. What they don't know is the reason for the family's desperation to be on that bus: a few towns away, their child is missing.
Lunch-Box Dream presents Jim Crow, racism, and segregation from multiple perspectives. In this story of witnessing without understanding, a naïvely prejudiced boy, in brief flashes of insight, starts to identify and question his assumptions about race.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 19, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781466800571
  • Release date: July 19, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781466800571
  • File size: 215 KB
  • Release date: July 19, 2011
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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:4.9
Lexile® Measure:800
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:3-4

Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields on the eve of the war's centenary, while inside their car, quiet battles rage. When an accident cuts their trip short, they return home on a bus and witness an incident that threatens to deny a black family seats. What they don't know is the reason for the family's desperation to be on that bus: a few towns away, their child is missing.
Lunch-Box Dream presents Jim Crow, racism, and segregation from multiple perspectives. In this story of witnessing without understanding, a naïvely prejudiced boy, in brief flashes of insight, starts to identify and question his assumptions about race.

Expand title description text
Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction