White Water
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780763636784 (0763636789)
Publish date: August 23rd 2011
Publisher: Candlewick
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
Michael is a young black boy who lives in a segregated world, one world for the white people and one for the colored. One day, when Michael is hot and thirsty, he takes a drink from the fountains for black people. The water tasted like “nasty, muddy, gritty yuck.” He saw a white boy drinking from th...
A vivid, realistic portrait of a young boy living in the segregated south that reveals the senselessness of racism.