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    Lunch-Box Dream

    By Tony Abbott

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    Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields on the eve of the war's centenary, while inside their car, quiet battles rage. When an accident cuts their trip short, they return home on a bus and witness an incident that threatens to deny a black family seats. What they don't know is the reason for the family's desperation to be on that bus: a few towns away, their child is missing.
    Lunch-Box Dream presents Jim Crow, racism, and segregation from multiple perspectives. In this story of witnessing without understanding, a naïvely prejudiced boy, in brief flashes of insight, starts to identify and question his assumptions about race.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781466800571
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    Tony Abbott

    Tony Abbott is the author of over a hundred books for young readers, including the bestseling series the Secrets of Droon and the Copernicus Legacy and the novels Firegirl and The Summer of Owen Todd. Tony has worked in libraries, in bookstores, and in a publishing company and has taught creative writing. He has two grown daughters and lives in Connecticut with his wife and two dogs. You can visit him online at www.tonyabottbooks.com.

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    • 1/5
      I am too kind to write what I really thought about this book. But whoever wrote the jacket copy should have written the book - it was far more interesting. While this book appears to be about what happens when a "white" family interact with an African American family in the 1950's segregated south, the actual event is almost tossed away, and the rest of the book contains so much filler that by the time it's finished, you're left sifting through the pieces trying to find what happened to the actual narrative. A poorly written attempt at covering an important subject in America's history
    • 4/5
      Excellent historical novel that adeptly explores the racism and segregation of Jim Crow-era south from multiple perspectives, both black and white.
    • 4/5
      I thought that this would be a great book as a required reading in school if it isn't already for young children.