Freedom Summer
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer
Published on 17. June 2014
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-4814-2298-7 (ISBN)
Description
Friendship defies racism for two boys in this stirring story of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now in a 50th Anniversary Edition with a refreshed cover and a new Introduction. Full color.
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Edition
Special edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Preschool, Reading Age: From 4 to 8 years, Interest Age: From 4 to 8 years
Edition type
Special edition
Product notice
Picture book
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
414 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4814-2298-7 (9781481422987)
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Persons
Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and grew up in an Air Force family, moving many times but digging deep roots into the Mississippi soil of her extended family. She still travels "down South" today from her longtime home in Frederick, Maryland, where she lives with her family and works as a freelance writer. She also teaches writing and oral history workshops--sharing with children how all history is really biography, and how every person's story is important. Freedom Summer is her first book. Jerome Lagarrigue was born and grew up in Paris, France, in a family of artists. Mr. Lagarrigue is the illustrator of Freedom Summer as well as My Man Blue by Nikki Grimes, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker and on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he teaches drawing and painting at Parsons School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York.