Francie

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Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his fa mily up North. Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't kept, and Francie painfully learns that her dreams of starting junior high school in an integrated urban classroom will go unfulfilled. Amid the day-to-day grind of working odd jobs for wealthy white folks on the other side of town, Francie becomes involved in helping a framed young black man to escape arrest—a brave gesture, but one that puts the entire black community in danger. In this vivid portrait of a girl in the pre-civil rights era South, Karen English completes Francie's world using lively vernacular and a wide array of flesh-and-blood characters.Francie is a Coretta Scott King Honor book.AWARDS• 2000 American Library Association Notable Children's Books• 2000 Coretta Scott King Honor, Author commendation• School Library Best Books of the Year long-listed• 2000 ALA Notable Children's Books long-listed• American Library Association Notable Children's Books• Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library• NYPLC Children's Books 100 long-listed• School Library Journal Best Books of the Year• 2000 American Library Association Notable Children's Books• American Library Association Notable Children's Books• Children's Books: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library• School Library Journal Best Books of the Year• 2004 School Library Journal Best Books of the Year long-listed• 1997 NYPLC Children's Books 100 long-listed Show more