Trouble on the Tombigbee
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Read More Adventures of
Ted and Poudlum in
A Yellow
Watermelon
by Ted M. Dunagan
“In A Yellow Watermelon, Ted refuses to be an observer of life in rural Alabama of 1949. He’s in the middle of the action, looking and listening and thinking. He learns secrets and stirs up dangers that force him to take a courageous stand against long established customs that are unfair and dishonest. What can an ‘almost twelve year old’ do to make a difference? With the help of forbidden friends, Ted’s inventive solutions will surprise the reader and keep the pages turning to the tasty end of the story.”
— Aileen Kilgore Henderson
“A fine, well-told tale of friendship between two smart, likable boys—one white, one black. Memorable [and] generous-hearted.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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Praise for Ted M. Dunagan’s
A Yellow Watermelon and Secret of the Satilfa
“Twelve-year-old Ted Dillon is an innocent white boy in rural Alabama in 1948, but his new friendships with a black boy named Poudlum Robinson and an escaped black convict named Jake [in A Yellow Watermelon] introduce him to a world where greed and racism intersect. Ted ‘reverse integrates’ the cotton field so he can work next to Poudlum, and he finds a way to rob evil Old Man Cliff Creel in order to finance Jake’s passage to California and pay off the Robinsons’ delinquent property taxes. He likes this new role of latter-day Robin Hood, once Jake explains to him who Robin Hood was . . . Memorable [and] generous-hearted.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“In Secret of the Satilfa, Ted Dunagan captures the grace, spirit, and grand adventures of an Alabama childhood. Set in 1948, the friendship between two young boys, one black and one white, shows a steadfast alliance that transcends a world of meanness and looks to a future of hope.”
— Kerry Madden, author of Up Close: Harper Lee
“Ted Dunagan convincingly captures the South of the late 1940s. In his moving story he shows through the experience of a young boy how friendship can triumph over prejudice. Good reading!”
— Faye Gibbons, author of Night in the Barn
”If you have a young adult in your house who likes to read, or one who doesn’t like to read but who you think might if it is the right book, here is what you are looking for. It is a dandy.”
— Harvey Jackson, The Anniston Star
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