The good fight / Ted Staunton ; Josh Rosen.
Publication details: Toronto : Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2021.Description: 217 p. : ill.; 22 cmISBN:- 9781443163835 (pbk.)
- Antisemitism -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Jews -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Immigrants -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Riots -- Ontario -- Toronto, 1933 -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Christie Pits (Toronto, Ont.) -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
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It's Toronto in the 1930s. The city is small, often xenophobic, and the summer is stiflingly hot. Everyone flocks to the lakeshore. In one area of the beach, a neighbourhood protective association has formed to keep out "undesirables", and members patrol wearing silver swastika pins. Meanwhile, the police chief believes the immigrant Jewish community is at the root of a communist threat, as the world witnesses an alarming rise of anti-Semitism overseas. Sid and his Pop live at the edge of the Ward, Toronto's immigrant slum, where they have rented a room from the Vendetellis since Sid's mom and baby sister died from influenza. Times are tough, and Sid faces impossible choices as he wrestles with honesty, bigotry, poverty, and expectations as a member of a "whiz mob", slang for a gang of pickpockets. But when Sid and his friends get coerced into working for the police after they're caught lifting a wallet at a baseball game, they become caught up in something much bigger than themselves, and must decide how far they will go to do what's right and to protect those they love. The story climaxes at the infamous Christie Pits Riot, Canada's largest race riot and a historic event that was a symbolic victory for Jewish and immigrant citizens.
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