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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Dove lives with her father who runs an orange grove. As a 15-year-old, her life is pretty typical: hanging out with her best friends, going to school, falling for her childhood friend Chase. But trouble is brewing among the migrant workers and the racist elements in town. At the center of it is Dove's former playmate, Gator, one of the black pickers. The racist members of the community spread rumors about Gator being the cause of several farm fires and plan to make an example of him for the other pickers. After learning some ugly news, Dove realizes she must act where adults have failed. Very suspenseful, characters are realistic and well-rounded, and Dove's emotional growth after hard lessons is believable. Devil on My Heels is an incredible book. Joyce McDonald deals with race and class issues in a sensitive but realistic manner. Dove Alderman is the privileged daughter of a successful orange grove owner who has few worries. When tensions rise between the grove workers and the locals Dove works to discover the truth. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
It's 1959 in Benevolence, Florida, and life is as sweet as a Valencia orange for 15-year-old Dove Alderman. Whether she's sipping cherry Cokes with her girlfriends and listening to the Everly Brothers, eating key lime pie made by her housekeeper, Delia, or cruising around town with the coolest boy in school in his silver-blue T-bird convertible, Dove's days are as smooth and warm as the soft sand in her father's orange groves. But there's trouble brewing among the local migrant workers. Mysterious fires have broken out, and rumors are spreading that disgruntled pickers are to blame. Suddenly, black and white become a muddy shade of gray, and whispers of the KKK drift through the Southern air like sighs. The Klan could never exist in a place like Benevolence, Dove tells herself. Or could it? From the Hardcover edition. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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