Belle Teal

Description:

Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away and a new students that are colored start to go to her school.

subjects: Poor,  Families,  Only child,  Juvenile fiction,  Poor children,  Elementary school teachers,  Grandmothers,  Family life,  Fiction,  Fifth grade (Education),  Best friends,  School children,  First day of school,  Schools,  Mothers and daughters,  Friendship in children,  Widows,  Teachers,  Girls,  Segregation,  Prejudices, fiction,  Children's fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Appalachian mountains, fiction,  Girls, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Southern states, fiction,  Family, fiction