| Freedom Summer Contributor(s): Wiles, Deborah (Author), Lagarrigue, Jerome (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0756950872 ISBN-13: 9780756950873 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $17.34 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: The winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, this work introduces a white boy living in the South of 1964, who recounts his first experience of racial prejudice--and his friendship with a black boy that defied it. Full color. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american |
| Dewey: E |
| Lexile Measure: 460 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.9" W x 10.1" (0.70 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Friendship |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 46086 Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |