As fast as words could fly / by Pamela M. Tuck ; illustrations by Eric Velasquez.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Lee & Low Books, ©2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781600603488
- 1600603483
- Family life -- North Carolina -- Fiction
- Civil rights movements -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Typewriting -- Juvenile fiction
- School integration -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- North Carolina -- Juvenile fiction
- Greenville (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- New Voices Award Winner.
| 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 | Tuck Pamela M | Available | 33111008092849 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
14-year-old Mason Steel takes pride in turning his father's excited ramblings about the latest civil rights incidents into handwritten business letters. One day Pa comes home with a gift from his civil rights group: a typewriter. Mason spends all his free time teaching himself to type. When a civil rights group wins a school desegregation case, Mason learns that now he will be attending a formerly all-white high school. Despite the injustice he faces, Mason takes a stand, enters a typing tournament and uses his skills to triumph over suspicions and racial prejudice.
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
Accelerated Reader 4.3.
Reading Counts! 4.1.
New Voices Award Winner.