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Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481422987)
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xTwo boys--one black, one white--are best friends in the segregated 1960s South in this picture book about friends sticking together through thick and thin. John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed. Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts.
Author: Deborah Wiles
ISBN-10: 1481422987
ISBN-13: 9781481422987
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2014
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.20h x 9.10w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 46086 / Freedom Summer
Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Superior,Well Above Average
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed. Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts.
Author: Deborah Wiles
ISBN-10: 1481422987
ISBN-13: 9781481422987
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2014
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.20h x 9.10w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 46086 / Freedom Summer
Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Deborah Wiles
xDeborah Wiles was born in Alabama and grew up in an Air Force family, moving many times but digging deep roots into the Mississippi soil of her extended family. She still travels "down South" today from her longtime home in Frederick, Maryland, where she lives with her family and works as a freelance writer. She also teaches writing and oral history workshops--sharing with children how all history is really biography, and how every person's story is important. Freedom Summer is her first book. Jerome Lagarrigue was born and grew up in Paris, France, in a family of artists. Mr. Lagarrigue is the illustrator of Freedom Summer as well as My Man Blue by Nikki Grimes, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker and on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he teaches drawing and painting at Parsons School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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