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Title: Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack, Jerry Pinkney ISBN: 0-689-81885-8 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Powerful Story.....
Comment: 'Tricia Ann is going to her favorite spot..."Someplace Special", and today she's going all by herself for the very first time. As she skips out the door, her grandma, Mama Frances, calls after her, "And no matter what, hold yo' head up and act like you b'long to somebody." Wise words 'Tricia Ann will need as she faces the indignities and humiliation of the Jim Crow laws during the 1950s. She has to ride in the back of the bus, behind the Colored Section sign. Her grandfather was a stonemason on the beautiful fountain in the park, yet she can't sit and enjoy watching it, because the park benches are for whites only. She can't eat in Monroe's Restaurant, or enter the Southland Hotel's lobby, "No colored people are allowed!" And if she wants to see a movie, 'Tricia Ann has to use the back door, and sit upstairs in the "Buzzard's Roost" But there is one place she can go, her "Someplace Special", and it has a message she loves to read, chiseled in the stone across the front of the building...Public Library: All Are Welcome..... Drawing from her own life as a young girl in Nashville, Tennessee, Patricia McKissack has written a quiet, poignant, yet very powerful story, detailing and explaining what life was like for African Americans, during the Jim Crow era. Her simple and evocative text is complemented by award winning illustrator, Jerry Pinkney's beautifully expressive, watercolor artwork, and together, they transport readers back to the hurtful and unfair world of the 1950s segregated south. An Author's Note at the end, completes and enriches the story, and can be a starting point for further lessons and/or discussions. Perfect for youngsters 5 and older, Goin' Someplace Special is a thoughtful and engaging story of both injustice, and the triumph of the human spirit.
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Title: The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park ISBN: 0440418135 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Leonardo's Horse by Jean Fritz, Hudson Talbott ISBN: 0399235760 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Buffalo Nickel by Taylor Morrison ISBN: 0618108556 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie by Joe Hayes, Joseph Daniel Fiedler ISBN: 0439293111 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Wingwalker by Rosemary Wells ISBN: 0786803975 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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