In 1948 Alabama, twelve-year-old cotton pickers Ted Dillon, a white boy, and Poudlum, an African-American, hatch a plan to aid an escaped African-American convict and save Poudlum's family from those who would steal their livelihood.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: race relations, juvenile fiction, segregation, african americans, prejudices, poor, alabama, history, 1819-1950, juvenile fiction, fiction