The Long Ride

by Marina Budhos

Book Overview

In the tumult of 1970s New York City, seventh graders are bussed from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica.

Jamila Clarke. Josie Rivera. Francesca George. Three mixed-race girls, close friends whose immigrant parents worked hard to settle their families in a neighborhood with the best schools. The three girls are outsiders there, but they have each other.

Now, at the start seventh grade, they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055353422X
• ISBN13: 9780553534221
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher