A Friendship For Today

From highly acclaimed award-winning author Patricia McKissack comes a powerful poignant and timely tale of segregation family and one surprising friendship. The year is 1954 the place is Missouri and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the first African American students to enter the white school in her town. Headstrong smart Rosemary welcomes the challenge but starting this new school gets more daunting when her best friend is hospitalized for polio. Suddenly Rosemary must face all the stares and whispers alone. But when the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome prejudice.