Walking with Miss Millie

✍ Scribed by Bundy, Tamara

• Book ID: 110001282
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 514 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780399544583

✦ Synopsis

"A memorable and lovely debut."--_Kirkus Reviews

"Walking with Miss Millie is full of subtle wisdom. Its ending is satisfying though sobering and there are elements of this story that stay with you long after the last page has been read."-- Karen English, Coretta Scott King Honor Award Author _
A poignant middle grade debut about the friendship between a white girl and an elderly black woman in the 1960s South

Alice is angry at having to move to Rainbow, Georgia--a too small, too hot, dried-up place she's sure will never feel like home. Then she gets put in charge of walking her elderly neighbor's dog. But Clarence won't budge without Miss Millie, so Alice and Miss Millie walk him together.
Strolling with Clarence and Miss Millie quickly becomes the highlight of Alice's day and opens her eyes to all sorts of new things to marvel over. During their walks, they meet a mix of people, and Alice sees...