Yankee Girl

Name: Yankee Girl
Price: 11.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.6 (86 reviews)
Author: Mary Ann Rodman

by Mary Ann Rodman

Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction

4.6 (86)

4.6 stars from 86 reviews

242 pages~4 hr readPublished by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Last checked: Apr 6, 2026

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Perfect for you if...

You're interested in coming-of-age stories that don't shy away from complicity and moral failure, especially in historical settings.
You want to understand how ordinary people enable injustice, told from inside a child's perspective rather than through a lecture.
You appreciated books like Wonder or The Hate U Give that centre young characters grappling with friendship, belonging, and doing the right thing.

Maybe not for you if...

You're looking for a story where the protagonist is heroic from the start. Alice makes painful choices, and the book doesn't let you off the hook for understanding why.
You prefer stories focused primarily on the experiences of Black characters. This is Alice's reckoning, not Valerie's story.
You want an uplifting narrative arc. The tragedy at the book's centre is a turning point, not a resolution.

About this book

Set in 1964, this novel follows Alice Ann Moxley, whose FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to Jackson, Mississippi, to protect Black people registering to vote. Alice is suddenly immersed in the racial tensions of the era when Valerie Taylor, a Black girl, joins her sixth-grade class as one of the first two Black students at the school following a mandatory integration law. Struggling to fit in with a clique of girls who call her "Yankee Girl," Alice assumes Valerie, as another outsider, will be an easy friend. However, Valerie silently endures severe harassment from the clique—far worse than what Alice experiences. Alice discovers that befriending the girls requires appearing complicit in their mistreatment of Valerie. A tragic event forces Alice to confront the consequences of prioritizing social acceptance over her own values.

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Currently around #1,988K in the Kindle store — a niche title.

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Currently 4.6★ from 86 reviews

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