Mare's war / Tanita S. Davis.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 341 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0375853596 (ebook)
- 0375857141 (hardcover)
- 0375957146 (reinforced)
- 9780375853593 (ebook)
- 9780375857140 (hardcover)
- 9780375957147 (reinforced)
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Automobile travel -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Alabama -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
- Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950 -- Juvenile fiction
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Author Honor Book, 2010.
- A Junior Library Guild selection
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Davis, Tanita S | Available | 33111006213801 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past.
Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn't your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras, and insists that she's too young to be called Grandma. But somewhere on the road, Octavia and Tali discover there's more to Mare than what you see. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less-than-perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American battalion of the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC member and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces a larger-than-life character who will stay with readers long after they finish reading.
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Author Honor Book, 2010.
A Junior Library Guild selection