Betty before X / Ilyasah Shabazz ; with Renée Watson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374306106
- 0374306109
- Shabazz, Betty -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Fiction
- Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Stepfamilies -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Detroit (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Shabazz Ilyasah | Available | 33111008704286 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Northport Library | Children's Fiction | SHABAZZ ILYASAH | Available | 33111008216679 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
* A New York Public Library Best Children's Book of 2018!*
*A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2018*
*A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018*
In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the speeches from guest activists like Paul Robeson and Thurgood Marshall stir African Americans in her community to stand up for their rights. Betty quickly finds confidence and purpose in volunteering for the Housewives League, an organization that supports black-owned businesses. Soon, the American civil rights icon we now know as Dr. Betty Shabazz is born.
Inspired by Betty's real life--but expanded upon and fictionalized through collaboration with novelist Renée Watson--Ilyasah Shabazz illuminates four poignant years in her mother's childhood with this book, painting an inspiring portrait of a girl overcoming the challenges of self-acceptance and belonging that will resonate with young readers today.
Backmatter included. This title has Common Core connections.
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.