The Nickel Boys |
Subtitle:
A Novel
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Book Category:
Fiction > Historical
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Author:
WHITEHEAD, COLSON
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Editor::
Thomas, William
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ISBN 13:
9780385545440
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Price:
$19.00
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Publication Year:
2019
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As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men."