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1) The Runaway
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A novel by the author of To Dance with the White Dog. Set in the South in the late 1940s, and using as its springboard the relationship of two boys--one black, the other white--The Runaway examines the joys, sorrows, conflicts, and racial disharmony of their historically biased environment.
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"The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks...
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