White Lilacs

by Carolyn Meyer

Book Overview

Young Rose Lee Jefferson is shocked to learn that the white residents of Dillon, Texas, want to raze the city's black enclave, Freedomtown, and build a park in its place. Rose Lee and the other residents of Freedomtown cannot bear the thought of losing their homes. But fighting the city's plans could be costly--or even life threatening. Will the families of Freedomtown be able to save their thriving community? Includes a reader's guide.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152058516
• ISBN13: 9780152058517
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

I LOVED THIS BOOK BECAUSE...

The characters were so realistic and I think that the author did a good job of describing places and things and people. But I think that Henry is so mean. I think that this book wasn't boring so anyone who does, i don't agree. Why does this book even be considered boring? I think it is very cool. I wish I could tell Carolyn Meyer that. I like meeting authors face to face. Teacher's like this book also, because it receieved a teacher's choice award in 1991.

This is a great book!

I loved this book. It told the facts, while also telling the story of a young girl. This book is showing Denton that we don't have to hide our past. It's better to get it out in the open. I read this as a class assignment, but I loved it. I truly recommend it.

Moved to Tears

Being the person I am, it is not easy to make me cry. I am just naturally happy. It gets especially hard when it's a book. They always just seem unreal as they are. This book however (based on a true story) is so well written and is about something so sad that I was crying my eyes out at the end of the book. I won't tell you why the end was so sad (read it!!!). It's written from the point of view of an older Rosa Lee Williams looking back from adulthood. It's written beautifully with great compasion. One of the great parts about the books is that it makes clear that not all white people are unfeeling and prejudice and that they are taught to be that way from the time they are born. This is showed by the character Miss Emily Firth, Rosa Lee's older, white, lady friend, who just moved to Dillion from the North and offers to give Rosa Lee free art lessons. Rosa Lee William is a great heroine and appears in a great book about the prejudice south at the turn of the century. It well worth the money you pay and the time you spend reading it.

White Lilacs

White Lilacs is a very good book . It is about a girl that is made to get out of her home along with other blacks by the rich persons of Dillon .They want to make the homes of the blacks into a park .This was a true story . It is a very good book and I hope you read it .

White Lilacs- The forgotten parts of American History

I am a college student, and I read White Lilacs for a class project. This book is a valuable supplement to any middle school curriculum because it thoroughly presents elements of history that social studies textbooks often overlook: namely, that of African-Americans. White Lilacs is very well written, and offers a poignant illustration of true events in the 1920s. It accurately portrays black church tradition, the experience of black soldiers in World War I, and the different attitudes blacks and whites had towards race in the 1920s. As I am personally very concerned with the issue of racial reconciliation, I find this book a valuable tool in helping both white and black people to understand from whence we have come, and what prevailing attitudes have caused race relations in the U.S. to develop as they have.