Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
- Ages
- 8, 9, 10
- Interest Level
- Grades 3 - 5
- Lexile Measure
- 580L
- DRA
- 40
- Guided Reading
- Q
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Number of Pages
- 104
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
About the Author and Illustrator
Patricia C. McKissack
Full-time writer, Patricia McKissack and her husband Fredrick L. McKissack have written over one hundred books about the African-American experience.
Gordon C. James
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