Twelve-year-old Selina and her close family resist pressure from city authorities to move from Africville, but changes within the family make them reconsider.

Last Days in Africville

Children's Books

Perkyns, Dorothy

Literature & Fiction

Dundurn Pr Ltd

Short-listed for the 2004 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, for the 2005 Diamond Willow Award and for the 2005 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award  On the shores of Bedford Basin in Halifax, 12-year-old Selina Palmer is growing up in the community of Africville in the 1960s. Struggling with what it means to be the only black student in her Grade 6 class, Selina takes comfort in the fact that every day she goes home to a loving and vibrant neighbourhood, where friends and family accept her as she is. But ugly rumours are starting to surface about the fate of Africville...

Dundurn Press

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Dominique et Compagnie

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