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Author:

Hyppolite, Joanne.

Title:

Ola shakes it up / Joanne Hyppolite ; illustrated by Warren Chang.

Publisher:

Delacorte Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

166 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Moving, Household--Fiction.
Neighborhood--Fiction.
Neighbors--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family life--Massachusetts--Fiction.
Massachusetts--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Juvenile fiction.
Neighborhood--Juvenile fiction.
Neighbors--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Family--Massachusetts--Juvenile fiction.
Massachusetts--Juvenile fiction.

Other Authors:

Chang, Warren, ill.

Summary:

Nine-year-old Ola and her family are the first black people to move into Walcott Corners, a stuffy, suburban Massachusetts community that Ola wishes were a little bit more like the lively old Roxbury neighborhood she sorely misses. Moving? When Ola Benson's family leaves Roxbury in Boston to a house in the suburbs, Ola is sure her parents have made a big mistake. What on Earth are they doing in Walcott--a historic, stuck-up town where the Bensons are the only black family? True, there are a few good things about the move: Mama and Daddy have better jobs. They have a bigger house, big enough to offer a home to Lillian, a Haitian refugee. But the house is in a "cooperative community" with a million rules: No kids outside after dark. No playing in the street. No jumping in the leaves. No fun. Well, if Ola's stuck in Walcott, she'll make it a place where she can feel at home. Ola the undaunted comes up with plan after plan, including Operation Pretend I Belong Here and Operation Smile If It Kills You. Finally she hits upon the superspecial can't miss plan: Operation Shake It Up.

ISBN:

9780385322355
0385322356

LCCN:

97017718

Locations:

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)