When the neo-fascist group The Doomsday Creed kidnap Sabrina Faroukh, Ryan Kaine gets the call. Sabrina was the IT expert who helped Kaine in his early days and as the granddaughter of an influential arms dealer, her life has more value than most to the terrorists. In the Arizona wilderness, u
The Girl on the Outside
β Scribed by Mildred Pitts Walter
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Teen & Tween
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1504027876
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Based on the 1957 Little Rock school integration, two teenage girls --one white, one black--are swept up in the fear and prejudice of their divided southern town
It's Sophia Stuart's last year at Chatham High--only now the pretty, popular high school senior will be sharing classes with nine black students. The Stuart family has differing views. Her dad and older sister's husband believe everything should stay segregated. Her brother, Burt, who lost an arm in the Korean War, thinks blacks should have the same rights as everyone else. And her boyfriend, Arnold, just took her to a black church because he likes the minister and the gospel music!
Fifteen-year-old Eva Collins rides in the back of the bus and goes to a separate church. But she's finally about to achieve one of her dreams: attending Mossville's first desegregated school. But the governor has just issued a restraining order delaying integration. With the town divided, the National...
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