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Bakers Mountain Stories (Related to this series)
- Author
- Joyce Moyer Hostetter
- Narrator
- Mark Sanderlin
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 15 November 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
What to expect
family are wrestling with monumental changes taking place at the end of 1959.
The world is at odds with the Soviet Union, and the Honeycutts are worried about
the threat of communism. Unrest is also erupting throughout the country and
close to home as African Americans fight for acceptance and equality.
The youngest Honeycutt, Jackie, absorbs all these changes and tries to find his
way to what he believes is right. Jackie’s journey begins when he bumps into
Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. He hopes the two of them can be
friends, but he quickly learns that racial inequalities and Jackie’s own behaviors
make the prospect of friendship challenging.
Amid community pushback to racial integration, bullying at school, and turmoil
within his family, Jackie struggles to free both his conscience and his voice and to
secure his friendship with Thomas.
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Details
- Author
- Joyce Moyer Hostetter
- Narrator
- Mark Sanderlin
- Duration
- 6 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9781705077900
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Synopsis
In this fifth and final title in the popular Bakers Mountain Stories, the Honeycutt family are wrestling with monumental changes taking place at the end of 1959. The world is at odds with the Soviet Union, and the Honeycutts are worried about the threat of communism. Unrest is also erupting throughout the country and close to home as African Americans fight for acceptance and equality.The youngest Honeycutt, Jackie, absorbs all these changes and tries to find his way to what he believes is right. Jackie’s journey begins when he bumps into Thomas Freeman fishing on the riverbank. He hopes the two of them can be friends, but he quickly learns that racial inequalities and Jackie’s own behaviors make the prospect of friendship challenging. Amid community pushback to racial integration, bullying at school, and turmoil within his family, Jackie struggles to free both his conscience and his voice and to secure his friendship with Thomas.
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