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Crossing Jordan
Crossing Jordan
Crossing Jordan
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Crossing Jordan

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This moving, coming-of-age story follows a young white girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town

Twelve-year-old Cassie narrates the dramatic events that unfold when Jemmie, an African-American girl, and her family move in next door. Despite their parents’ deeply held prejudice against each other’s family—exemplified by the fence Cassie’s father builds between their two houses—the girls find they share more similarities than differences. Mutual interests in reading and running draw them together, and their wariness of each other disappears. But when their parents find out about the burgeoning friendship, each girl is forbidden to see the other. A family crisis and celebration provide opportunities for the families to reach an understanding.
 
Author Adrian Fogelin addresses the complex issues of bigotry and tolerance with sensitivity and intelligence. Readers will find her story of how two adolescent girls, through their own example, teach racial tolerance to the adults in a small Florida town powerful and compelling.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 7, 2014
ISBN9781497694439
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Adrian Fogelin

Adrian Fogelin is the author of several novels for middle readers and young adults, including Crossing Jordan and The Real Question. She lives in Florida.

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    a great book about interacial friendship
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    I liked this book most for the back-and-forth repartee between the two young woman protagonists, Cass, white and poor, and Jemmie, her new African American neighbor. They are believable, likeable, life-affirming, funny, and perfectly paired, as friends and as an amazing track running team dubbed Chocolate Milk. They read Jane Eyre to each other, and stumble over its meaning with each other, through a fence Cass' dad put up between their houses when he heard the new neighbors were Black. The book is not edgy. It's not going to surprise you, even if you can't guess the exact details of the denouement. There will be a race, maybe. But it's a good-hearted book taking on a subject, race-relationships, that needs more attention. On a more basic level, it's a book about a great friendship.

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