Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
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["Juvenile fiction""Segregation""Fiction""Running""Role models""African American girls""African Americans""Parades""History""Children's fiction""African americansfiction""Paradesfiction""Tennesseefiction"]