Bestselling author and Coretta Scott King Award winner Andrea Davis
Pinkney presents a moving fictional account of school desegregation in
the Civil Rights Era.
Twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson's life turns upside down after the
Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregation in the landmark case
Brown v. Board of Education. Her parents decide that Dawnie will
attend Prettyman Coburn, a previously all-white school -- but she'll be
the only one of her friends to enroll in this new school.Not everyone in
Dawnie's town of Hadley, Virginia, supports integration, though, and
much of the community is outraged by the decision. As she starts school,
Dawnie encounters the harsh realities of racism. But the backlash
against her arrival at Prettyman Coburn is more than she's prepared for,
and she begins to wonder if the hardship is worth it. Will Dawnie be
able to hold on to the true meaning of justice and remain faithful to
her own sense of integrity?