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001 2013941837
003 DLC
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008 130602s2013 miu j 000 1 eng d
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020 $a9780814336069 (paperback)
020 $a081433606X (paperback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn827082916
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050 00 $aPZ7.E529$bCo 2013
100 1 $aElster, Jean Alicia,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe colored car /$cJean Alicia Elster.
264 1 $aDetroit :$bWayne State University Press,$c[2013]
300 $axiii, 207 pages ;$c19 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aGreat Lakes Books Series
520 $aIn The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and vegetables in the family's summer kitchen, adjacent to the wood yard that her father, Douglas Ford, owns. Times are tough, and Patsy's mother, May Ford, helps neighborhood families by sharing the food that she preserves. But May's decision to take a break from canning to take her daughters for a visit to their grandmother's home in Clarksville, Tennessee, sets in motion a series of events that prove to be life-changing for Patsy. After boarding the first-class train car at Michigan Central Station in Detroit and riding comfortably to Cincinnati, Patsy is shocked when her family is led from their seats to change cars. In the dirty, cramped "colored car," Patsy finds that the life she has known in Detroit is very different from life down south, and she can hardly get the experience out of her mind when she returns home--like the soot stain on her finely made dress or the smear on the quilt squares her grandmother taught her to sew. As summer wears on, Patsy must find a way to understand her experience in the colored car and also deal with the more subtle injustices that her family faces in Detroit. By the end of the story, Patsy will never see the world in the same way that she did before. Elster's engaging narrative illustrates the personal impact of segregation and discrimination and reveals powerful glimpses of everyday life in 1930s Detroit. For young readers interested in American history, The Colored Car is engrossing and informative reading.--Page [4] of cover.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zMichigan$zDetroit$y1930-1939$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 $aRace discrimination$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0 $aSegregation in transportation$vJuvenile fiction.
651 0 $aDetroit (Mich.)$vJuvenile fiction.
651 0 $aClarksville (Tenn.)$vJuvenile fiction.
830 0 $aGreat Lakes books.