Unstoppable Octobia May
2014
Book
In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780545609623
- 9780545609616
- 9780545609609
- 0545609623
- 0545609607
Edition: First edition.
Description: 276 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
- Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary.
- Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN: 2014003496
Control Number: 1059631
Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2014.Subjects:
- African American girls -- Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans -- Fiction.
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Juvenile fiction.
- Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
- Boardinghouses -- Southern States -- Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship -- Fiction.
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
- Racism -- Fiction.
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
- Secrecy -- Fiction.
- Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction.
- Southern States -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction.
- Southern States -- History -- 1951- -- Juvenile fiction.
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