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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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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.
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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.
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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.,
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