The Friendship

Infobox Book
name = The Friendship


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author = Mildred Taylor
illustrator = Max Ginsburg
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country = United States
language = English
genre = Children's literature, African-American Literature
publisher = hardback, Dial, paperback, Puffin
release_date = 1987-09-30
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 56 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-803-70417-8

"The Friendship" is the name of the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award-winning [ [http://www.ala.org/ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookaward/cskwinners/cskpastwinners/cskpastwinners.cfm List of Coretta Scott King Award winners] , American Library Association, retrieved 2008-03-20] book by Mildred Taylor. Published in 1987, it is set in 1933 in Mississippi. It deals with the unfair treatment of African Americans.

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Mr. Tom Bee, an eldery black man, twice saved the life of a white storekeeper when he was a boy. The boy, John Wallace, was grateful and even allowed Mr. Bee to always call him by his first name. However, years later, Mr. Wallace does not allow Mr. Bee to call him John, while he and even his son call him Tom, which he can do nothing about. Their friendship is ultimately put to the test, which four black children witness.

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