• Going North
Author(s): Janice N Harrington,Jerome Lagarrigue
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 40
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Language: English
Date Published: 2004-09-08
Dimensions: 231.14 x 279.4 x 10.16mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: Revised and Rev
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

An African American family becomes a new kind of pioneer

Leaving behind Big Mama, loving relatives, and the familiar red soil and cotton fields of Alabama, Jessie and her family are going north to Nebraska. They are pioneers searching for a better life, one with decent schools and jobs. But traveling through the segregated South is difficult for an African American family in the 1960s. With most public places reserved for "whites only," where will they stop to get gas and food?

Lyrical free verse and evocative paintings capture the rhythm of the road and a young girl's longing as she wonders: Will I like it there? Will I like the North?
Book Info
Author Janice N Harrington, Jerome Lagarrigue
Date Published 2004-09-08
Dimensions 231.14 x 279.4 x 10.16mm
Edition Revised and Rev
First Author Janice N Harrington
Format Hardback
Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified
ISBN 9780374326814
Language English
No. of Pages 40
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Going North

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