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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel

by Mary Helen Stefaniak

Published: 2011-09-19
Paperback : 342 pages

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“A delightful story. . . . Once you enter its pages and the worlds therein, it’s hard to leave.”—Carol Bicak, Omaha World Herald

Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a worldly schoolteacher turns the small town of Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace ...

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“A delightful story. . . . Once you enter its pages and the worlds therein, it’s hard to leave.”—Carol Bicak, Omaha World Herald

Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a worldly schoolteacher turns the small town of Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey defies the traditional curriculum and racial boundaries alike, regaling her charges with readings from the Thousand Nights and a Night and casting a gifted African American student as "chief engineer" of the town's annual festival, newly reinvented as the Baghdad Bazaar. But her progressive actions are not without consequence and ultimately culminate in a night of death-defying stories that take readers on a magic carpet ride from a schoolroom in the South to the banks of the Tigris (and back again).

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"Overall our club didn't enjoy this book."by Lynda S. (see profile) 12/08/10

Personally, I liked the book. I thought the beginning was interesting, the characters enjoyable and the story believeable. The end of the book was confusing however, with one of our members counting 5... (read more)

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