Synopsis
Last Days in Africville by Dorothy Perkyns
Short-listed for the 2004 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, for the 2005 Diamond Willow Award and for the 2005 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award On the shores of Bedford Basin in Halifax, 12-year-old Selina Palmer is growing up in the community of Africville in the 1960s. Struggling with what it means to be the only black student in her Grade 6 class, Selina takes comfort in the fact that every day she goes home to a loving and vibrant neighbourhood, where friends and family accept her as she is. But ugly rumours are starting to surface about the fate of Africville...Reviews
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Format
Paperback
120 pages
Author
Dorothy Perkyns
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Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
Publication date
1st February 2006
ISBN
9781550026306
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