Ruby's war / Johanna Winard.
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TextSeries: MagnaPublisher: Long Preston [England] : Magna, 2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: 500 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750539906 (hbk.)Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Lancashire -- Fiction | African American soldiers -- Fiction | Race discrimination -- Fiction | African Americans -- History -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books. Summary: 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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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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