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In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrest for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor., In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy... More

In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrest for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor., In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor., Twelve-year-old African-American Pattie Mae adores her adoptive uncle Buddy Bush, who returned to North Carolina from Harlem with a Cadillac and a reluctance to submit to the Jim Crow racism of the South in 1947. One evening he and Pattie Mae are waiting together for a friend when he doesn't step off the sidewalk to make way for a white woman, and she accuses him of making an advance toward her. He's soon in jail, accused of rape and about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. He escapes into a swamp and makes his way north. The first-person narration by young Pattie Mae resonates with colloquial expressions, and the story is based on a true incident that happened to the author's family. An afterword includes period photographs of the people involved. A 2005 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.

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