Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Author) Jerome Lagarrigue Lagarrigue (Illustrator)
There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie's town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.
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Simple and straightforward, the first-person narrative relates events within the context of one close-knit family.
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Carole Boston Weatherford
New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford's 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com. Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) illustrated over 110 books for children, including Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, and a Sibert Honor. He was also the recipient of the CorettaScott King Award for The Blacker the Berry; three Coretta Scott King Honors for I Have Heard of a Land, Meet Danitra Brown, and Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea; 10 ALA Notables; and an NAACP Image Award, among other honors. Visit floydcooper.com.
Classification
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ISBN-13
9780142408940
Lexile Measure
660
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
December 20, 2007
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV016110 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - General
JUV016110 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - General
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
Race relations
North Carolina
Civil rights demonstrations
Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)
Race relations
North Carolina
Civil rights demonstrations
Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)
Georgia Children's Book Award
Nominee 2010 - 2010
