Abby Takes A Stand (Scraps of Time Series)
Synopsis
Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each book in the series tells the story behind a different 'scrap of time;' together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.
Although this book is historical fiction, only the family characters are fictional; all locations and events are historically correct. The primary civil rights people that are mentioned are actual people in the civil rights movement.
Picture descriptions included.
- Derechos de autor:
- 2005 Patricia C. McKissack
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780670060115
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 2013-08-30T21:42:40Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.