The Summer We Got Saved
by Pat Cunningham Devoto
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Tab and Tina, relatives of a founder of Ku Klux Klan, are whisked away to an interracial Civil Rights school one summer. There, they befriend both a black polio patient and the biracial daughter of a Yankee and a Civil Rights leader. Can the girls be saved from the racist traditions of their Alabama family?Tags
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interesting book about racism in the South, LMIC Book Club
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Pat Cunningham Devoto has lived in Atlanta, Georgia, for the past 30 years. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- The Summer We Got Saved
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Tab; Tina; Aunt Eugenia; Maudie
- Important places
- Alabama, USA
- Epigraph
- I have no way and therefore want no eyes. I stumbled when I saw. -King Lear
- Dedication
- For my parents Sara Thackston Cunningham and Wells Rutland Cunningham
- First words
- It was years later, after their father died, that they came across it.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I think that's it, the thing we saw in the backyard of the church, that night we got saved."
- Blurbers
- Inman, Robert; Taemy, Lalita
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3554 .E92835 .S86 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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