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Ted and Poudlum #3
Trouble on the Tombigbee
Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Young Adult Fiction
First Place Recipient of the Augusta Literary Festival Yerby Literary Award
In Ted Dunagan's third young adult novel, boyhood friends Ted and Poudlum, a white boy and a black boy who live in the rural segregated South of the 1940s, find their fishing trip interrupted by a Ku Klux Klan meeting. The boys accidentally learn the identity of key Klansmen. Discovered, they escape down the river but only to swim into the arms of more trouble.
Dunagan's storytelling gifts make this an engaging read. Ted and Poudlum's escapades test their resourcefulness and challenge their awakening moral selves, as they come to understand the injustice of the time in which they live.
Being a kid was never better than when Ted Dunagan imagines it. And the imagining was never better than in Trouble on the Tombigbee , the author's latest work.
First Place Recipient of the Augusta Literary Festival Yerby Literary Award
In Ted Dunagan's third young adult novel, boyhood friends Ted and Poudlum, a white boy and a black boy who live in the rural segregated South of the 1940s, find their fishing trip interrupted by a Ku Klux Klan meeting. The boys accidentally learn the identity of key Klansmen. Discovered, they escape down the river but only to swim into the arms of more trouble.
Dunagan's storytelling gifts make this an engaging read. Ted and Poudlum's escapades test their resourcefulness and challenge their awakening moral selves, as they come to understand the injustice of the time in which they live.
Being a kid was never better than when Ted Dunagan imagines it. And the imagining was never better than in Trouble on the Tombigbee , the author's latest work.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 2011
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About the author
Ted M. Dunagan
4 books11 followersTed M. Dunagan was born in 1943 in rural southwestern Alabama. He attended Georgia State University, and served for three years in the Army as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and Special Forces Training Group. Dunagan is now retired after a career in the cosmetics and fragrance industry. He writes features and columns for The Monticello News in Monticello, Georgia, where he lives with his wife.
Dunagan is a two-time Georgia Author of the Year Award winner in the young adult category: in 2009 for his debut novel, A Yellow Watermelon, and in 2011 for Secret of the Satilfa. A Yellow Watermelon also earned a spot on the inaugural 25 Books Every Young Georgian Should Read list compiled by the Georgia Center for the Book.
Dunagan is a two-time Georgia Author of the Year Award winner in the young adult category: in 2009 for his debut novel, A Yellow Watermelon, and in 2011 for Secret of the Satilfa. A Yellow Watermelon also earned a spot on the inaugural 25 Books Every Young Georgian Should Read list compiled by the Georgia Center for the Book.
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June 13, 2017
Book #3 from the "Alabama Book Bag". Entertaining tale of a very eventful fishing trip on the Tombigbee river.
May 31, 2012
In Ted M. Dunagan’s third young adult novel, readers reunite with Ted and Poudlum, whose friendship disregards racial boundaries of 1940s Alabama. In this suspenseful tale, Ted and Poudlum set out on a fishing trip only to discover an induction ceremony of Ku Klux Klan, where they witness several prominent community members engaging in the despicable activities that define the KKK. Unfortunately, Ted and Poudlum’s hiding place is also discovered, and they must outsmart their pursuers several times, disrupting their fishing trip and landing them in other dangerous situations—ultimately, the Klansmen are the least of the two friends’ worries. Readers will be hooked from the first stroke of the boys’ paddles on the river and will appreciate Dunagan’s captivating writing with its rich dialogue that provides its own rhythm and harmony alongside the story of two boys’ loyalty to one another and the adventure they crave.
October 30, 2015
This novel set in Alabama probably in the 1930s was a mix of Huck Finn and the Hardy Boys. I enjoyed it and will recommend it to young fans of mystery novels.
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