Dallas Public Library

Making friends with Billy Wong, Augusta Scattergood

eng

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8-12, Brodart

3-7, Brodart

fiction

Making friends with Billy Wong

939426622

Augusta Scattergood

In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship

pre adolescent