Alligator Bayou
By Donna Jo NapoliTalullah, Louisiana. 1899.
Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.
To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily, Tallulah is a lush world full of contradictions, hidden rules, and tension between the Negro and white communities. He s startled and thrilled by the danger of a gator hunt in the midnight bayou, and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharpwitted, sweet-natured Negro girl. Some people welcome the Sicilians. Most do not. Calogero s family is caught in the middle: the whites don t see them as equal, but befriending Negroes is dangerous. Every day brings Calogero and his family closer to a a terrifying, violent confrontation."
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 280 pages
- English
- 0385746547
- 9780385746540
About Donna Jo Napoli
donna jo napoli is both a linguist and a writer of children's and ya fiction. she loves to garden and bake bread, and even dreams of moving to the woods an Read More about Donna Jo Napoli
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