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But the backlash against her arrival at Prettyman Coburn is more than shes prepared for, and she begins to wonder if the hardship is worth it.

As she starts school, Dawnie encounters the harsh realities of racism. Her parents decide that Dawnie will attend Prettyman Coburn, a previously all-white school - but shell be the only one of her friends to enroll in this new school.Not everyone in Dawnies town of Hadley, Virginia, supports integration, though, and much of the community is outraged by the decision. Twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnsons life turns upside down after the Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregation in the landmark case Brown v. Book Synopsis Bestselling author and Coretta Scott King Award winner Andrea Davis Pinkney presents a moving fictional account of school desegregation in the Civil Rights Era. About the Book Bestselling author and Coretta Scott King Award winner Pinkney presents a moving fictional account of school desegregation in small-town Virginia in the 1950s.