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Between Us Baxters
Between Us Baxters
Between Us Baxters
Bethany Hegedus
It's hard to be a "Black Sheep Baxter," at least for 12-year-old Polly. From a poor white family, Polly's best friend, Timbre Ann Biggs, is black, making them the only "salt-and-pepper" friends in town. But in that fall of 1959, life in quiet Holcolm County starts to heat up as one by one, thriving colored businesses burn to the ground. When someone throws a note wrapped around a brick through the window of Biggs Repair, Polly worries that Timber Ann will be blinded by the color of her skin and forget they were ever close. When a tragic fire brings everything to a head, the spotlight falls on Polly's family. Sensitively painting a vivid portrait of the Jim Crow South, Polly's inspiring story captures the defiant spirit of youth in an oppressive small town, just as the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement begin to sprout.
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Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
Between Us Baxters review by GBarr_GIPS
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GBarr_GIPS

The setting of Between Us Baxters starts in a small town with a poor white family and a rich black family. These are the times when the white people hated the black people. Both the moms get along really well; they also work together. The two little girls are amazing friends but they fight every once in a while. The problem is that the white dad dislikes the black dad so much. He will also do anything to show that he hates the colored. The dad and 3 other people that will surprize you will do horrible stuff to make the colored people feel like trash.

Rating:
5
Five Star Award
Content Rating:

Content rating - nothing offensive
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