Freedom Summer : celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer / written by Deborah Wiles ; illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue ; with a new foreword by the author.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2014]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1481422987 (hardback)
- 9781481422987 (hardback)
- Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | 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 Picturebook | Historical Events | Wiles Deborah | Checked out | 05/22/2024 | 33111007579259 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Two 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.
Originally published in 2001.
In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is black, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.
Ages 4-8.
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award