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03095aam a2200517 i 4500 001 0124999CBFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220419010024 008 210721t20222022mau c 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2021947068 020 $a 1536222550 020 $a 9781536222555 035 $a (OCoLC)1260820232 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d MJ8 $d XY4 $d RNL $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a [Fic] $2 23 100 1 $a Jackson, Linda Williams, $e author. 245 14 $a The lucky ones / $c Linda Williams Jackson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Somerville, Massachuetts: $b Candlewick Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 308 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He's going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer--or maybe both--and live in a big brick house in town. There'll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won't have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his class--particularly those about famous colored people like Mr. Thurgood Marshall and Miss Marian Wright--and borrowing books from his teacher's bookshelf. When Mr. Foster presents him with a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ellis Earl is amazed to encounter a family that's even worse off than his own--and is delighted by the Buckets' very happy ending. But when Mama tells Ellis Earl that he might need to quit school to help support the family, he wonders if happy endings are only possible in storybooks. Around the historical touchstone of Robert Kennedy's southern "poverty tour," Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell a detail-rich and poignant story with memorable characters, sure to resonate with readers who have ever felt constricted by their circumstances."--From the Publisher. 650 0 $a African American children $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Poverty $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Racism $v Juvenile fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1961-1969 $v Juvenile fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations $v Juvenile fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 15 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314023930.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206010740.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010025017.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214011125.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20221008010247.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220712011555.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220706023033.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014607.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220630010601.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220630010228.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20220630010058.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220615010439.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220601010231.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220503071605.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220419010144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0124999CBFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search