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Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
By Robinet, Harriette
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68983-191-1
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2000
Gr 5-8 Six months into the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, resourceful 12-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister Zinnia, and his devoted grandmother, Big Mama, walk everywhere, pooling their meager wages to pay the rent on their tar-paper home. When their money begins disappearing, the siblings are determined to solve the mystery and to keep their home. Struggling to make ends meet, they take a house-cleaning job that leads to accusations of theft. Persevering and observant, Alfa solves this second mystery, confronts the white estab...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
