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Yard war

Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.

Main Author:	Kitchings, Taylor (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Herlocher family tribute. Racism > Juvenile fiction. Race relations > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Neighbors > Juvenile fiction. Families > Mississippi > Juvenile fiction. Nineteen sixties > Juvenile fiction. Football > Juvenile fiction. Jackson (Miss.) > History > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.
Physical Description:	216 pages : 22 cm
ISBN:	9780553507539 0553507532 9780553507546 0553507540 9780553507560 0553507567
Author Notes:	Taylor Kitchings' roots in Mississippi run many generations deep, though it took him a while to circle back to them. As a college freshman, he recorded the original album Clean Break, now considered a collector's item. As a junior, he wrote music for mallet and giant M#65533;bius strip, performed at Manhattan's Caf#65533; La MaMa. In the years between his BA from Rhodes College and MA from Ole Miss, he traveled from Memphis to New York to Europe, writing and performing songs on piano. He and his wife Beth have two children and live in Ridgeland, Mississippi, where he teaches English at St. Andrew's Episcopal School. His short story "Mr. Pinky Gone Fishing" was published in the collection Tight Lines from Yale University Press . Yard War is his first novel.

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