Channie Waites
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English
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Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement.In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new school and to leave the comfort of all that is familiar to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
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English
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The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and Marvel comics. But it was...
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Dear America volume novel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson's life turns upside down after the Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregation in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. Her parents decide that Dawnie will attend Prettyman Coburn, a previously all-white school -- but she'll be the only one of her friends to enroll in this new school. Not everyone in Dawnie's town of Hadley, Virginia, supports integration, though, and much of the community is outraged...
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[2011]
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English
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In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson is sent to a previously all-white school in the fall of 1955. As she quickly learns, racism is rife at her new school. When her brother is bullied and her father loses his job, Dawnie starts to question if integration in worth the trouble.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson is sent to a previously all-white school in the fall of 1955. As she quickly learns, racism is rife at her new school. When her brother is bullied and her father loses his job, Dawnie starts to question if integration is worth the trouble.