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Belle Teal
By Martin, Ann M.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-43909-823-6
- Publisher
- Scholastic
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
Gr 4-6 Belle Teal begins fifth grade in the early 60s in the rural South with only one cloud on the horizon, her beloved grandmother's increasing forgetfulness. However, school turns out to be much more complicated this year as a result of the desegregation that brings in three African-American children, one of them to Belle's classroom. Students and parents are divided on this issue, and the conflicts are expressed in various hurtful and potentially...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2002
With the same sincere and empathetic handling of grade-school life that made her Baby-sitters Club books so popular, Martin here deftly draws a more complicated portrait of a racially integrating fifth-grade class in a rural school during the early 1960s. Ebullient—okay, bossy—Belle Teal is more curious than anything else when it comes to Darryl, one of the few black children newly attending Coker Creek Elementary. T...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
