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Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia | Mary Helen Stefaniak
3 posts | 3 read | 12 to read
Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new, well-traveled young schoolteacher turns a small Georgia town upside down. Miss Grace Spivey believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Miss Spivey transforms the lives of everyone around her: Gladys's older brother Force (with his movie-star looks), her pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs' African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South. Populated by unforgettable characters including three impressive camels The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris (and back again) in an entrancing feat of storytelling."
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julesG
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I'm such an idiot. I left book and full cup of tea on the table.

The Wii people are right, make sure you have enough room to move around you.

On the positive side, we could watch a pH test in action. It was cranberry tea and alkaline paper turned the red stains purplish blue.

#DontWiiWithTea

diovival A cautionary tale. 5y
DivineDiana Great recovery! 👏🏻 5y
Moony 🤣🤣🤣😘 5y
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quietlycuriouskate Love the bit about the pH test! 5y
rockpools Nooooooo! 5y
JennyM 😬 5y
DGRachel I'm really sorry for the book, but that hashtag! I'm trying really hard not to laugh at work. :O 5y
CouronneDhiver 😂😂 oopsie! 5y
Velvetfur Oh gosh I did that at work today - full tall travel mug of green tea alllll over the desk, and I'd just made it so hadn't even had a sip yet. I do like the cool colour your tea turned into on the book though! 😂 5y
Velvetfur I must just point out here that I hadn't been playing on a Wii at work!! I just moved a phone! 😂 5y
julesG @Velvetfur Does green tea leave stains? 5y
Velvetfur @julesG I don't know, my colleague jumped up and got a huge roll of paper towel and together we cleaned it all up in about a minute! I followed with baby wipes everywhere 😁 5y
Leniverse Love your hastag. 😂 Is the book completely ruined, or just a funky colour? Because if you just inscribe that hastag on the flyleaf, it becomes cool. 5y
julesG @Leniverse The cover is all warped. 😔 5y
julesG @Velvetfur These days I should carry a roll of paper towel on a string around my neck, like a St Bernhard. 5y
Velvetfur @julesG Haha! Good idea, I'll do the same 👍 5y
BookNAround Oh dear! Glad there was at least some positive to come out of it. 5y
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rachelm
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For #augustphotochallenge an #underhyped book. Set in 1938 Georgia, a worldly school teacher enters a small town, including its racial and social politics. Full of imagination and heart, this book is comparable with To Kill A Mockingbird but more indie. Pick it up if you see it!

shawnmooney This sounds amazing! 8y
Mamashep Yes! Yes! Yes! This is one I would read again and I don't often do that. 8y
rachelm @Mamashep exactly! I'm like, how does everyone not have this on their shelf? 8y
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Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia | Mary Helen Stefaniak
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Dreamy and "To Kill a Mockingbird"y. Weaves the Arabian Peninsula and Georgia together.