TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winard,Johanna
TI  - Ruby's war
T2  - Magna
SN  - 9780750539906 (hbk.)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Long Preston [England]
PB  - Magna
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - Lancashire
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American soldiers
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - In the autumn of 1942, fifteen year old Ruby is collected from her aunt's guesthouse by her grandfather. She is taken to live with him in a village in industrial Lancashire, where a few days after her arrival a number of US Quartermaster Truck Companies of black troops take over a nearby camp. Before long tension rises between the newly arrived troops and the locals, many of whom still have embedded racial prejudices. As the town becomes divided, Ruby and her friends must struggle with adolescence, illicit love, dangerous friendships and the difficulty of doing what is right in a chaotic and unfair world
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