Masters, who helps her with spring cleaning and serves when we have Christmas parties. I come here now and then with Mama when she drops off a lady named Mrs. “Ahead, the railroad tracks and small grocery store right beside them let me know that we were about to cross into what most folks around Birdsong refer to as The Other Side. You also had some very fine people on both sides.” Keywords: summer, soldiers, military, prejudice, African American, African American author, American history, World War II, racism, prejudice, American South, diverse books, diversity, multicultural, identity, loyalty, respecting others, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old What can a 12-year old boy have to give to a man of color in a small southern town in 1946?Ģ08 pages 978-1-5247-3709-2 Ages 10 and up Meriwether Hunter, a colored man, has saved his life and when someone saves your life a special bond is created between you and them. In a flash a man steps up and pushes Gabriel out of the path of the car. It's a Schwinn Autocycle Deluxe with a built in electric light.Įxcited, Gabriel takes off across town to show his bike to his best friend, Patrick, and doesn't notice the yellow Buick Roadmaster that's headed straight for him. Gabriel's parents have given him the gift he's dreamed of. Gabriel Hamberlin is turning 12 in the small southern town of Birdsong, USA not too many miles from Charleston, South Carolina.
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