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The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA

✍ Scribed by Woods, Brenda A

Book ID
100686111
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group; Nancy Paulsen Books
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
98 KB
Category
Fiction
City
South Carolina,South Carolina., Southern States., United States,United States.
ISBN
1524737100

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✦ Synopsis

The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and a Black WWII veteran who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.
On Gabriel's twelfth birthday, he gets a new bike--and is so excited that he accidentally rides it right into the path of a car. Fortunately, a Black man named Meriwether pushes him out of the way just in time, and fixes his damaged bike. As a thank you, Gabriel gets him a job at his dad's auto shop. Gabriel's dad hires him with some hesitation, however, anticipating trouble with the other mechanic, who makes no secret of his racist opinions.
Gabriel and Meriwether become friends, and Gabriel learns that Meriwether drove a tank in the Army's all-Black 761st Tank Battalion in WWII. Meriwether is proud of his service, but has to keep it a secret because talking about it could be dangerous. Sadly, danger finds Meriwether, anyway, when his family receives a frightening...

✦ Subjects

Family -- South Carolina -- Fiction

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