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Harrington, Janice N.
GOING NORTH
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
IL K-3
ISBN 0374326819
The year is 1964. Jessie and her family are starting an adventure.  Daddy wants to move the family to Lincoln, Nebraska from their home in Alabama.  There are better jobs there.  And better schools for the children.  But Jessie doesn't want to go.  She likes it in Alabama.  Her friends are there.  What awaits the family as they set out in their lemon yellow station wagon in search of a better life?
SUBJECTS:     Moving, Household -- Fiction.
                        African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Race relations -- Fiction.
                        Southern States -- 20th century -- Fiction.

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