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When she’s not saving the world, reading Nancy Drew or eating Dreamsicles, Glory shares the heartache of being the kid sister of a preoccupied teenager, friendship gone awry and the terrible cost of blabbing people’s secrets… mostly in a humorously sassy first-person voice.

The Hemphills’ African-American maid, Emma, a mother figure to Glory and her sister Jesslyn, tells her, “Don’t be worrying about what you can’t fix, Glory honey.” But Glory does, becoming an activist herself when she writes an indignant letter to the newspaper likening “hateful prejudice” to “dog doo” that makes her preacher papa proud. Tensions have been building since “Freedom Workers” from the North started shaking up status quo, and Glory finds herself embroiled in it when her new, white friend from Ohio boldly drinks from the “Colored Only” fountain. Not only that, she finds out the closure’s not for the claimed repairs needed, but so Negroes can’t swim there. Glory can’t believe it… the Hanging Moss Community Pool is closing right before her July Fourth birthday.

In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating itĬataloging source NjBwBT Scattergood, Augusta Dewey number Government publication unknown if item is government publication Index no index present Interest level MG LC call number PZ7.S32745 LC item number Gl 2012 Literary form fiction Nature of contents dictionaries Reading level 4.The closing of her favorite swimming pool opens 11-year-old Gloriana Hemphill’s eyes to the ugliness of racism in a small Mississippi town in 1964.

Glory faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her when she witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.

City and town life - Mississippi - Fiction.Mississippi - History - 20th century - Fiction.Label Glory be Title Glory be Statement of responsibility Augusta Scattergood Creator