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Trouble the Water
Trouble the Water
Trouble the Water
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Trouble the Water

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From the award-winning author of Dovey Coe comes a “powerful” (School Library Journal) tale of the friendship between a black girl and a white boy and the prejudices they must overcome in segregated Kentucky as they try to solve the mystery surrounding a lonely old dog.

Eleven-year-old Callie is fearless, stubborn, and a little nosy. So when she sees an old yellow dog wandering around town by itself, you can bet she’s going to figure out who he belongs to. But when her sleuthing leads her to cross paths with a white boy named Wendell who wants to help, the segregated town doesn’t take too kindly to their budding friendship.

Meanwhile, a nearly invisible boy named Jim is stuck in a cabin in the woods. He’s lost his dog, but can’t remember exactly when his pup’s disappeared. When his companion, a little boy named Thomas, who’s been invisible much longer than he, explains that they are ghosts, the two must figure out why they can’t seem to cross the river to the other side just yet…

And as Callie and Wendell’s search for the old dog brings them closer and closer to the cabin in the woods, the simmering prejudices of the townspeople boil over.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 3, 2016
ISBN9781481424653
Trouble the Water
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Frances O'Roark Dowell

Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; Where I’d Like to Be; The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away; Chicken Boy; Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; Falling In; The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews; Anybody Shining; Ten Miles Past Normal; Trouble the Water; the Sam the Man series; The Class; How to Build a Story; and most recently, Hazard. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

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    Callie is an 11 year old black girl in small town Kentucky in 1953. She is independent, strong, and wants to be either a private detective or a newspaper reporter, so when a very old golden retriever that doesn't seem to belong to anyone begins wandering around the town, Callie is determined to find out what the story of the dog is. Wendell is an 11 year old white boy in the same town. He's never given much thought to the black people in his town, positive or negative. But he loves dogs, so when the confident Cassie asks for his help, the bewildered Wendell goes along with it. When the people in town begin to see a black girl and white boy walking around together, "troubling the water", tensions rise.Throw in the ghost of a white boy who died a few years earlier and the ghost of a black boy who died many many years earlier, and you have a great story. I was especially happy with the ending, leaving some of the story incomplete, which in this case was exactly the right way to end.

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