The Well: David's Story (Puffin Teenage Fiction S.) - Softcover
One long, hot summer in the early 1900s, all the wells in David Logan's part of the Mississippi have gone dry - except for his family's. The Logans are glad to share their water with black and white neighbours alike but David, and his brother Hammer, find it hard to share with Charlie Simms, a white teenager who expects them to jump when he says so just because they're black. Charlie's meanness and Hammer's pride are a dangerous mixture and tensions between the boys build and build - until theyexplode.
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About the Author:
Mildred D.Taylor was born in Mississippi and grew up in Ohio. She worked in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps before enrolling at the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado, where she helped develop a Black Studies programme. She is best-known for her Newbery Medal winner, ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY. Mildred D. Taylor now lives in Colorado.
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One hot summer in the early 1900s, all the wells in David Logan's part of Mississippi have gone dry - except their family's. But David doesn't want to share the water with one white racist white boy, Charlie, and the tensions between the two of them build and build until they eventually explode.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140380884
- ISBN 13 9780140380880
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- Number of pages96
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