Status
Available
Call number
DDC/MDS
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Publication
Yearling (1997), Edition: Reprint, 176 pages
Original publication date
1968-12 Short Story
1979 Novel
Description
A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks.
Language
ISBN
044041346X / 9780440413462
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — 1980)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1982)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1982)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1981-1982)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee — 1982)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 1986)
Gouden Griffel (Vlag en Wimpel — 1985)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1979)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Middle School — 1991)