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Alligator Bayou

by Donna Jo Napoli
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780553494174
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Wendy Lamb Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: USD 15.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 218 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical / United States / 19th Century

An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899.

Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store.

Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation.

In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and spare, beautiful language take the classic immigrant story to new levels of emotion and searing truth. Alligator Bayou tells a story that all Americans should know.

Donna Jo Napoli is the author of many distinguished books for young readers, among them The Great God Pan, Daughter of Venice, Crazy Jack, The Magic Circle, Zel, Sirena, Breath, Bound, Stones in Water, Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale, and, most recently for Wendy Lamb Books, The King of Mulberry Street. She has a BA in mathematics and a PhD in Romance linguistics from Harvard University and has taught widely at major universities in America and abroad. She has five children and one grandson and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where she is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.

You can visit her on the Web at www.donnajonapoli.com.

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