Name: Bright April

Author: Marguerite de Angeli
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Children, Picture books, Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9780385072380
0385072384
In this story, the central character is April Bright, a 9-year-old schoolgirl and Brownie Scout in Philadelphia just after World War II. In a warm and friendly family story, against a Pennsylvania setting, the author touches lightly, and with integrity, on racial divisions as they affect dark-skinned April, her life at school, her friendships, her scout troop. At a picnic she first encounters racial prejudice in lonely little Phyllis, but her gift for friendship overrides even this, and she makes a friend of Phyllis, too.
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