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Title Statement | Alligator bayou / Donna Jo Napoli. |
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Author | Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948- |
Publication | New York: Wendy Lamb Books, [2010], c2009. |
Edition | 1st trade pbk. ed. |
Extent of Item | 280 p. |
ISBN | 0553494171 (pbk.) 9780553494174 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2078305 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-280). |
Summary | Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong. Despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Immigrants--Fiction |
Italian Americans--Fiction | |
Uncles--Fiction | |
Prejudices--Fiction | |
Race relations--Fiction | |
Segregation--Fiction | |
Interracial dating--Fiction | |
Country life--Fiction--Louisiana | |
By Location | Louisiana--Fiction--History--1865-1950 |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Domestic fiction |