Remember As You Pass Me By
by L. King Pérez
It is Silvy’s twelfth birthday, and she has two wishes: she wants a performing goat, just like she saw on television, and she wants to invite her best friend, Mabelee, to her birthday party. But Silvy's mother and grandmother object. "Mabelee has her own friends," they tell her, even though Silvy and Mabelee were best friends when they were little. It does seem like Mabelee has a whole new set of friends—they're busy painting the old school and trying to raise money to buy schoolbooks. Then Mabelee starts calling her "Miss Silvy" whenever they pass in the street. It's enough to make Silvy's skin crawl.
Silvy's not alone for long, though. Allie Rae, with looks like a movie star, moves into the walk-up over the funeral parlor. She and Silvy like all the same things—"dying stories, riding trees, and talking dirty in disguise"—and Silvy thinks she's found a friend her mother and grandmother won't object to. But even Allie Rae has some unseemly things to say about Mabelee and her friends and Silvy's not sure who to side with.
Told in Silvy's boisterously funny voice, Remember As You Pass Me By is a deeply moving chronicle of a young girl's awakening to the prejudice her world is steeped in, set in Hughes Springs, Texas, during the time of the landmark ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education.
L. King Pérez
Author's Bio:A graduate of UCLA and Wright State University, L. King Pérez grew up
in East Texas but now lives in Dayton, Ohio. She has taught from
kindergarten to college and enjoys helping young people discover the
power of words. She is the author of three illustrated children's
books: Ghoststalking; Belle the Great American Lapdog; and First Day in
Grapes, which was a Smithsonian Magazine notable for 2002, and one of
the top ten diversity books chosen by the Vermont Center of the Book in
2003. First Days in Grapes was also nominated for the Martin Luther
King "Living the Dream" award in 2004.
Quotes:“In Remember As You Pass Me By L. King Pérez has written a serious historical novel full of spunk and humor that is sure to engage readers of all ages; one filled with rich detail that will take the younger readers to an unfamiliar time and place as painlessly as a movie. . . . Best of all, she introduces us to two girls easily as appealing as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I rooted for them all the way to the end of the book.”
— Audrey Couloumbis, author of Getting Near to Baby, a Newbery Honor Book
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Price:
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Binding: Hardcover
Availability In Stock: 25
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2007
Size: 5.25x8
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781571316776
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