BOOK: Belle Teal by Martin

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Martin, Ann M._Belle Teal._Scholastic, 2001 [0-439-09823-8]
It is the early 1960s and Belle Teal's elementary school in the deep
south is about to be integrated.  Belle's grandmother has taught
her to treat everyone the same but on the first day of school there
are parents protesting outside her school and Darryl becomes one
of her classmates.  Ann Martin (of the Babysitter's club) has
written a touching story of prejudice in the south. Belle is an
outspoken young lady who deals with a stuck up girl (nicknamed
HRH) and other social problems at school including her befriending
the new African American classmate.  This 216 page book is a
good, solid piece of historical fiction.

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