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[2012]., University of Alabama Press Call No: GN B Weaver Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lila Quintero Weaver offers a graphic novel in black and white detailing her childhood in 1961, when she and her Latino family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Marion, Alabama, and were witnesses to the racial tension of the American south. As neither black nor white in race, Lila and her family occupied a unique place in the American south at the time, and had their own struggles against racism.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC WEAVER Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Lu Olivera is in sixth grade, and all she wants is to do is keep her head down and get along with everyone--but her friends are starting to act boy-crazy, and some have even started making fun of her for being able to run track really fast. Lu hopes she can make a new friend in fellow runner Belinda Gresham, but she is black and Belinda is white, and in 1970 Red Grove, Alabama, that just won't work. Racial tensions rise in the state, and Lu is forced to take a stand for what is right.
