My Year in the Middle

Description:

In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lu s talent for running track makes her a new best friend and tests her mettle as she navigates the school s social cliques.

subjects: Argentines,  Middle schools,  Friendship,  Juvenile fiction,  Racism,  Civil rights movements,  Nineteen seventies,  Segregation in education,  Schools,  Immigrant children,  African Americans,  Civil rights,  Track and field athletes,  History,  Children's fiction,  African americans, civil rights, fiction,  Civil rights movements, fiction,  Schools, fiction

Places: United States,  Alabama

Times: 20th century