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It’s 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed ‘Yankee Girl’ and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie – one of the school’s first black students – has it much worse. Alice can’t stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up. It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes. Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Girl is a powerful, resonant and relevant story about racism and doing the right thing.

The Motor Boat Boys, by Louis Arundel, is a series of adventure books for boys, published by M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago, Illinois, from 1912 through 1915. The series featured six teen-aged boys of the Motor Boat Club, and their adventures on various waterways. The Motor Boat Boys series include: Motor Boat Boys' Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie (1912), Motor Boat Boys on the Great Lakes; or, Exploring the Mystic Isle of Mackinac (1912), Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence River; or, Adventures Among the Thousand Islands (1912), Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys; or, The Struggle for the Leadership (1913), Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast; or, Through Storm and Stress to Florida (1913), Motor Boat Boys' River Chase; or, Six Chums Afloat and Ashore (1914) and Motor Boat Boys Down the Danube; or, Four Chums Abroad (1915).

Jack Stormways was an active lad of about seventeen. His figure was as straight as that of an Indian, and his face one in which a steady purpose seemed to abide. Usually of a sunny, cheerful disposition, he knew how to arouse all dormant faculties in the members of a baseball or football team of which he might chance to be captain.Nearly everybody liked Jack Stormways; and even such enemies as he naturally made during his career in school admitted that they admired his clean methods of doing things.His companion, Jimmie Brannagan, was a short-bodied Irish lad, with red hair and a freckled face; but possessing a sturdy frame, as well as a ready wit. Ever since Jimmy's mother died he's lived at Jack's house, and had a chance to attend school. Together they will go on a journey down the Mississippi where they will encounter bank robbers, Castaways, and much more.