Who Are You, Trudy Herman?
A Novel
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2018.
Format: Book
Description: 282 pages ; 22 cm
"As a little girl, Trudy Herman is taught to stand up for truth by her much-loved grandfather. Then in 1943, Trudys childhood drastically changes when her family is sent to a German-American Internment Camp in Texas. On the journey to the camp, Trudy meets Ruth, who tells her and her friend Eddie the legend of the Paladinsknights of Emperor Charlemagne who used magic gifted to them by the heavens to stand up for virtue and truth. Ruth insists both Trudy and Eddie will become modern-day Paladinsdefenders of truth and justicebut Trudys experiences inside the camp soon convince her that she doesnt have what it takes to be a knight. After two years, her family is released from the camp and they move to Mississippi. Here, Trudy struggles to deal with injustice when she comes face to face with the ingrained bigotries of the local white residents and the abject poverty of the black citizens of Willow Bay. Then their black housekeepera woman Trudy has come to care forfinds herself in crisis, and Trudy faces a choice: look the other way, or become the person her grandfather and Ruth believed she could be?" -- From Amazon.com
Subjects:
German Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1941-1948 -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Discrimination -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction.
German Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
German Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1941-1948 -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
Courage -- Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
German Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1941-1948 -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Discrimination -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction.
German Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
German Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1941-1948 -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
Courage -- Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781631523779
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F Beck | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
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Includes discussion questions.