The Other Side

✍ Scribed by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated short stories

• Book ID: 111686076
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 830 KB
• Series: Illustrated short stories
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
One morning, when Clover gets close to the fence, the girl asks her name and tells her that her name is Annie. Not allowed to go over the fence, the girls decide to sit on it. After all, they weren't told they couldn't do that.

Eventually, they ask if they can join the jump rope game that Clover's friends are playing near the fence. And when all the girls get tired of jumping, they sit together on the fence, talking. The story ends on a hopeful note for the future that one day the fence will be knocked down.