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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Elster, Jean Alicia.     Subjects     Blacks -- Michigan -- Detroit -- 1930-1939 -- Juvenile fiction.     Race discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.     Segregation in transportation -- Juvenile fiction.     Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction.     Clarksville (Tenn.) -- Juvenile fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Elster, Jean Alicia.       by title:      The colored car / Je...       by call number:      FICTION ELS     Search the Web     Elster, Jean Alicia.     Blacks -- Michigan -- Detroit -- 1930-1939 -- Juvenile fiction.     Race discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.     Segregation in transportation -- Juvenile fiction.     Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction.     Clarksville (Tenn.) -- Juvenile fiction.       MARC Display

The colored car / Jean Alicia Elster. by Elster, Jean Alicia. Wayne State University Press, 2013. Call #: FICTION ELS Subjects Blacks -- Michigan -- Detroit -- 1930-1939 -- Juvenile fiction.   Race discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.   Segregation in transportation -- Juvenile fiction.   Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction.   Clarksville (Tenn.) -- Juvenile fiction. Series Great Lakes books. ISBN:  9780814336069 (pbk.) 081433606X (pbk.) 9780814336069 (pbk.) 081433606X (pbk.) Description:  xiii, 207 p. ; 19 cm. Summary:  "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."--From publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction, Juvenile. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Children's Black Fiction FICTION ELS Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Children's Black Fiction FICTION ELS Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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