Welcome to The Reading Warehouse
The Reading Warehouse has the lowest prices on school bulk book orders! We will beat any legitimate book bid.
Fax or email us your lowest book bid from one of our competitors and we will beat their price. No other book company offers this guarantee!
Please pardon any quirks on our site as we are undergoing construction as we speak - Thank you!
Fax or email us your lowest book bid from one of our competitors and we will beat their price. No other book company offers this guarantee!
Please pardon any quirks on our site as we are undergoing construction as we speak - Thank you!
The World Of Webster's!
FREE
Library Processing
Library Processing
Special thanks to the following
publishers who have contributed to our
Weekly Book Giveaway!
Check out some of their titles
by clicking the links below:
| The Other Side Contributor(s): Woodson, Jacqueline, Lewis, Earl B. (Illustrator) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0399231161 ISBN-13: 9780399231162 Publisher: Penguin Group USA Retail: $16.99 OUR PRICE: $11.81 You Save Over 30% Buy 100 or more: OUR PRICE: $11.38 Save More! Buy 200 or more: OUR PRICE: $10.87 Save Even More!! Binding Type: Hardcover Published: January 2001 Annotation: Beautifully rendered in Lewis's striking, lifelike watercolor illustrations, this story by Woodson is a moving, lyrical narrative told in the hopeful voice of a child confused about the fence that divides the black side of town from the white side. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Issues | Friendship - Juvenile Fiction | Social Issues | Prejudice & Racism |
| LC Subject: - Race relations; Fiction. - Friendship; Fiction. - Summer; Fiction. |
| Dewey: [E] |
| LCCN: 99042055 |
| Academic/Grade Level: Grade 1-2, Age 6-7 |
| Book type: Juvenile Fiction |
| Physical Information: 10.50" H x 11.75" W x 0.75" (1.00 lbs) |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 46154 Reading Level: 2.7 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Scholastic Reading Counts Info |
| Quiz #: Q23978 Reading Level: 2.6 Interest Level: Grades K-2 Point Value: 2.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Clover has always wondered why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. But this summer when Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious about the reason why the fence is there and about the daring girl who sits on it, rain or shine. And one day, feeling very brave, Clover approaches Annie. After all, why should a fence stand in the way of friendship? Beautifully rendered in Earl B. Lewis's striking, lifelike watercolor illustrations, Jacqueline Woodson gives us a moving, lyrical narrative told in the hopeful voice of a child confused about the fence someone else has built in her yard and the racial tension that divides her world. |
Reviewed by Horn Book Guide Reviews (Horn Book Guide Reviews 2001 Fall) Illustrated with Lewis's masterful watercolors, this simple allegory depicts a black girl's cautious acceptance of the white girl who hangs out on the fence dividing the town. While giving no reason for the white girl's persistent attempts to make contact, Woodson's clear prose moves easily to the expected finish: ""Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down."" Copyright 2001 Horn Book Guide Reviews |
Reviewed by Publishers Weekly Reviews (PW Reviews 2000 December #1) Woodson (If You Come Softly; I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This) lays out her resonant story like a poem, its central metaphor a fence that divides blacks from whites. Lewis's (My Rows and Piles of Coins) evocative watercolors lay bare the personalities and emotions of her two young heroines, one African-American and one white. As the girls, both instructed by their mothers not to climb over the fence, watch each other from a distance, their body language and facial expressions provide clues to their ambivalence about their mothers' directives. Intrigued by her free-spirited white neighbor, narrator Clover watches enviously from her window as "that girl" plays outdoors in the rain. And after footloose Annie introduces herself, she points out to Clover that "a fence like this was made for sitting on"; what was a barrier between the new friends' worlds becomes a peaceful perch where the two spend time together throughout the summer. By season's end, they join Clover's other pals jumping rope and, when they stop to rest, "We sat up on the fence, all of us in a long line." Lewis depicts bygone days with the girls in dresses and white sneakers and socks, and Woodson hints at a bright future with her closing lines: "Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down," says Annie, and Clover agrees. Pictures and words make strong partners here, convincingly communicating a timeless lesson. Ages 5-up. (Jan.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. |
Reviewed by School Library Journal Reviews (SLJ Reviews 2001 January) Gr 1-4-A story of friendship across a racial divide. Clover, the young African-American narrator, lives beside a fence that segregates her town. Her mother instructs her never to climb over to the other side because it isn't safe. But one summer morning, Clover notices a girl on the other side. Both children are curious about one another, and as the summer stretches on, Clover and Annie work up the nerve to introduce themselves. They dodge the injunction against crossing the fence by sitting on top of it together, and Clover pretends not to care when her friends react strangely at the sight of her sitting side by side with a white girl. Eventually, it's the fence that's out of place, not the friendship. Woodson's spare text is easy and unencumbered. In her deft care, a story that might have suffered from heavy-handed didacticism manages to plumb great depths with understated simplicity. In Lewis's accompanying watercolor illustrations, Clover and her friends pass their summer beneath a blinding sun that casts dark but shallow shadows. Text and artwork together beautifully.-Catherine T. Quattlebaum, DeKalb County Public Library, Atlanta, GA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. |
| To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First! |