Author: E R Braithwaite

Published: 1971

Publisher: Pearson United Kingdom

Format: Hardback

Pages: 184

Suitable: Secondary

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. Based on the author's own experiences, this is the story of a black teacher's trials and triumphs with a group of senior pupils in an overcrowded London school.

When a woman refuses to sit next to him on a bus Rick Braithwaite is saddened by her prejudice. In cosmopolitan London he had hoped for a more enlightened attitude. When he begins his first teaching job in a tough East End school the reactions are the same. Slowly and painfully some of the barriers are broken down, but his story is still relevant today.