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Abby takes a stand
McKissack, Pat, 1944-

Publisher:	Viking,
Pub date:	c2005.
Pages:	104 p. :
ISBN:	0670060119
Copy info:	67 copies available at Aspen Hill Library, Bethesda Library, Chevy Chase Library, Damascus Library, Davis Library, Marilyn J. Praisner Library, Gaithersburg Library, Germantown Library, Kensington Park Library, Little Falls Library, Olney Library, Poolesville Library, Potomac Library, Quince Orchard Library, Rockville Library, Silver Spring Library, Twinbrook Library, Wheaton Library, and Longbranch Library.

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ASPEN_HILL	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
BETHESDA	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
CHEVYCHASE	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
DAMASCUS	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
DAVIS	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	PAPERBACKS
GAITHERSBG	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	3	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
GERMANTOWN	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	5	Book (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
	4	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	PAPERBACKS
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
KENSINGTON	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
LITTLEFALL	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Book (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
LONGBRANCH	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
OLNEY	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
POOLESVILL	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
POTOMAC	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
PRAISNER	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	OVERFLOW
	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	OVERFLOW
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
QUINCEORCH	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	3	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
ROCKVILLE	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
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JUVENILE FICTION	1	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
TWINBROOK	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	2	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	1	Book (Adult Collection)	CHILDRENS
WHEATON	Copies	Material	Location
JUVENILE FICTION	2	Book (Children's Collection)	EASY-J
	1	Book (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHILDRENS
	1	Paperback - Mass Market (Children's Collection)	CHECKEDOUT

Summary

The award-winning author begins a new series in which each book tells the story behind a different "scrap of time," which together form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past. In this first book, ten-year-old Abby describes what life was like for blacks living in Nashville in 1960. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Publishers Weekly Review

In what PW called an "engaging" kickoff to the Scraps of Time series, Abby finds a menu in her grandmother Gee's attic, sparking the woman's memory of a pivotal episode in the American civil rights movement. Ages 8-up. (Jan.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

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ISBN:	0670060119 (hardcover) : $14.99
ISBN:	9780142406878 (pbk.) : $4.99
ISBN:	0142406872 (pbk.) : $4.99
Personal Author:	McKissack, Pat, 1944-
Title:	Abby takes a stand / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated Gordon C. James.
Publication info:	New York : Viking, c2005.
Physical descrip:	104 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series Title:	(Scraps of time)
Abstract:	Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
Subject term:	Segregation Fiction.
Subject term:	Civil rights demonstrations Fiction.
Subject term:	African Americans Fiction.
Geographic term:	Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations Fiction.
Geographic term:	Tennessee--History--20th century Fiction.
Added author:	James, Gordon C.,