Morning in a different place

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Label

Morning in a different place

Statement of responsibility

Mary Ann McGuigan

Creator

• trueMcGuigan, Mary Ann
• McGuigan, Mary Ann

Subject

• African Americans -- Fiction
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- History | 20th century -- Fiction
• trueBronx, New York City -- History -- 20th century
• trueDysfunctional families
• trueEighth-grade girls
• trueFamily problems
• Family problems -- Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueInterracial friendship
• true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
• trueRace relations
• Race relations -- Fiction
• trueRacism
• trueSchools
• Schools -- Fiction
• Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
• trueSelf-fulfillment
• trueTeenage girls
• trueNew York City -- History -- 20th century
• trueAfrican Americans

Genre

• trueHistorical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness

Awards note

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Cataloging source

Junior Lit Guild

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Interest grade level: 6-9

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

710

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 9

Target audience

juvenile