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    Lunch-Box Dream
    Lunch-Box Dream
    Lunch-Box Dream
    Audiobook3 hours

    Lunch-Box Dream

    Written by Tony Abbott

    Narrated by Brian Schreier, Kevin R. Free and Robin Miles

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    About this audiobook

    In this compelling novel, Golden Kite Award-winning children's author Tony Abbott explores Jim Crow laws and family strife from multiple perspectives. During the summer of 1959, Bobby and his family are visiting Civil War battlefields. Tempers flare as an accident cuts their trip short and forces them to return home by bus. On their journey, they witness a black family getting denied bus seats. In brief flashes of insight, young Bobby begins to question his assumptions about race. "Beautifully crafted and written."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 21, 2012
    ISBN9781470331948
    Lunch-Box Dream
    Author

    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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    • 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.
    • 4/5
      Excellent historical novel that adeptly explores the racism and segregation of Jim Crow-era south from multiple perspectives, both black and white.
    • 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