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Lunch-box Dream

Published
Jul 2011
Main Genre
Historical Historical
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192

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Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields on the eve of the war's centenary, while inside their car, quiet battles rage. When an accident cuts their trip short, they return home on a bus and witness an incident that threatens to deny a black family seats. What they don't know is the reason for the family's desperation to be on that bus: a few towns away, their child is missing.

Lunch-Box Dream presents Jim Crow, racism, and segregation from multiple perspectives. In this story of witnessing without understanding, a naïvely prejudiced boy, in brief flashes of insight, starts to identify and question his assumptions about race.

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Jan 2013 Square Fish ISBN 1250016681
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First Edition Jul 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374346739
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Jul 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 1466800577
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Jul 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN B005M28A6C
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Sep 2012 Recorded Books ISBN B0094MQMTS
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