Freedom Train

✍ Scribed by Coleman, Evelyn

• Book ID: 108254741
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781442436534

✦ Synopsis

Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boys struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South.

Its 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Traina train that is traveling to all forty-eight states carrying the countrys most important documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Clyde is chosen to say the Freedom Pledge at the trains stop in Atlanta, but his terrible stage fright forces him to refuse the honor. Instead, its the class bully, Phillip, who gets selected, and he begins to torment Clyde. When an African-American boy saves him from a beating, Clyde is shocked. Especially when he learns that William lives in the white part of town. How can this be? And why cant he bring himself to be friends with William?

Clyde hasnt told his parents he wont perform the pledge, nor has he mentioned his confusing friendship with a boy of color....