Making friends with Billy Wong, Augusta Scattergood
Type
Label
Making friends with Billy Wong, Augusta Scattergood
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Making friends with Billy Wong
Oclc number
939426622
Responsibility statement
Augusta Scattergood
Summary
In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship
Target audience
pre adolescent
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Genre
Subject
- Prejudices -- Fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- 20th century -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Arkansas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject13
- Prejudices -- Fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- 20th century -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Arkansas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Grandmothers -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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