Last Days in Africville - Dundurn

Last Days in Africville

Published February 2006

Paperback
$ 12.99

Description

Short-listed for the 2004 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, for the 2005 Diamond Willow Award and for the 2005 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award

On the shores of Bedford Basin in Halifax, 12-year-old Selina Palmer is growing up in the community of Africville in the 1960s. Struggling with what it means to be the only black student in her Grade 6 class, Selina takes comfort in the fact that every day she goes home to a loving and vibrant neighbourhood, where friends and family accept her as she is. But ugly rumours are starting to surface about the fate of Africville…

Contributors

Dorothy Perkyns

Dorothy Perkyns is the author of several previous young adult novels. She lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Book Details

ePub
February 2006
-
120 pp
9781459715905
Paperback
February 2006
5.25x8.25 in
120 pp
9781550026306
ePub
February 2006
-
120 pp
9781554885619