Belle Teal

Ann M. Martin

About this book

Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away and a new students that are colored start to go to her school.

Subjects

  • african americans, fiction
  • appalachian mountains, fiction
  • best friends
  • children's fiction
  • elementary school teachers
  • families
  • family, fiction
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • fiction
  • fifth grade (education)
  • first day of school
  • friendship in children
  • girls
  • girls, fiction
  • grandmothers
  • juvenile fiction
  • mothers and daughters
  • only child
  • poor
  • poor children
  • prejudices, fiction
  • school children
  • schools
  • segregation
  • southern states, fiction
  • teachers
  • widows