Evicted from their apartment and forced to seek refuge at Aunt Maggie's crowded lodgings with her mother and siblings, thirteen-year-old Fiona flees to a nearby all-black neighborhood where her best friend, Yolanda Baker, lives, in a story of interracial friendship set against the backdrop of the civil rights era.
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Fiona doesn't know where she belongs. When her mother is evicted from their Bronx apartment in New York, she tries to return to her father's house--only to flee one of his drunken rages the first night back. Alone, she wanders the streets until--by chance--she bumps into an old classmate. Yolanda seems to understand her pain. Misfits, both girls search for belonging. Will they find it in each other? ... even though one is black and the other is white? Mary Ann McGuigan deftly explores how racism riddles the lives of these characters in New York during the early '60s, leaving readers hopeful about friendship's power to bridge chasms--perceived and real.
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In this National Book Award nominee, Irish-Catholic Fiona, running away from an abusive father in 1963, takes refuge with her African American friend Yolanda. Ages 10-14.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great Book,
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This review is from: Where You Belong (Hardcover)
Where you Belong was a good book. Its about a girl named Fiona. Her parents have problems. One night while staying at her fathers house, he comes home drunk. Fiona runs away scared that her Father will hurt her. She ends up on a park bench wondering what to do, where is she suppose to go, where does she belong? After a while she gets up to leave when she meets an old friend, Yolanda. They go on adventures like any other friends would, but there is a problem, Fiona is white and Yolanda is not. When this threatens their friendship Fiona has to figure out how to help Yolanda through hard times.I would give this book four stars. Its a great book. It starts out slow but picks up as the story goes on. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good read and on friendship.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book - National Book Award Finalist,
This review is from: Where You Belong (Hardcover)
This is a moving story for young people - sensitively and powerfully bringing the hard subjects of race, alcoholism, and poverty into a redemptive narrative.
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