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One Mississippi
Contributor(s): Childress, Mark (Author)
ISBN: 0316012122     ISBN-13: 9780316012126
Publisher: Back Bay Books
OUR PRICE:   $23.74  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2007
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Annotation: When the first black prom queen of Minor High School is hit by a car and emerges from her coma believing shes white, best friends Daniel and Tim find themselves caught up in a shocking chain of events that leads to a shattering climax.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
- Demographic Orientation - Small Town
- Geographic Orientation - Mississippi
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Friendship
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 109183
Reading Level: 4.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 17.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

"There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter - big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted." -New Orleans Times-Picayune

This exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling Crazy in Alabama tells an uproarious and moving story about family, best friends, first love, and surviving the scariest years of your life.

You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events.

"Wise, riveting, hilarious, painful, gentle, and ferocious, One Mississippi is a wonderful read." -Anne Lamott

"A Tilt-a-Whirl that flings the reader from comedy to calamity. . . . Childress is a fabulist in the manner of John Irving." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"By turns rollicking and troubling, as provocative as it is droll, One Mississippi is about as easy to resist as a riptide. This critic's advice is to go with its powerful flow." -Raleigh News & Observer