Virgie goes to school with us boys / by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN:- 0689800762
- [Fic] 21
- PZ7.H83273 Vi 1999
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Historical Events | Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald | Available | 33111003705189 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This luminous and energetic picture book follows a young boy who takes his younger sister on her first trip to school in the Reconstruction-era South.
"Papa, Mama, can I go too?"
Virgie was always begging to go to school with us boys. My brothers had doubts. School was seven miles away--a long way from Mama. Virgie was scarcely big as a field mouse. How could she make the trip? And girls didn't really need school.
But I got to thinking: Virgie was free like we were. Free to learn. And didn't girls need to know how to write and add, too? Mama and Papa thought so. And one summer, they decided to do something about it. That was the year Virgie came to school with us boys. And she sure showed us!
Coretta Scott King honor book.
In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers.