Title My Selma : true stories of a Southern childhood at the height of the civil rights movement / Willie Mae Brown.

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New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023.

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Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 920 BROWN	Check Shelf
Bloomfield at the Atrium	J-B BROWN	DUE 05-06-24
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	JB BROWN	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department	J BIO BROWN, WILLIE MAE	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 323.092 BROWN	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department	J-B BROWN, WILLIE MAE	Check Shelf
Manchester, Whiton Branch - Children's Department	J-B BROWN, WILLIE MAE	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Nonfiction	J B-BROWN BRO	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Teen	YA B BROWN	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Tween	TWEEN 305.8 BROWN	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	229 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	"As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family's home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories. In one, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to offer summer babysitting services to a glamorous single white mother--a secret she keeps from her parents that unravels with shocking results. In another, Willie Mae reluctantly joins her mother at a church rally, and is forever changed after hearing Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a defiant speech in spite of a court injunction. Infused with the vernacular of her Southern upbringing, My Selma captures the voice and vision of a fascinating young person--perspicacious, impetuous, resourceful, and even mystical in her ways of seeing the world around her--who gifts us with a loving portrayal of her hometown while also delivering a no-holds-barred indictment of the time and place." -- Amazon.com.
	"A stirring memoir of growing up Black in a town at the epicenter of the fight for freedom, equality, and human rights"-- Provided by publisher.
Audience	Ages 10-14 Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
	Grades 7-9 Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
Contents	Preface -- My Selma -- A new neighborhood -- First week of summer -- Growing up in Selma -- Dah finds out -- Puppy -- An unfriendly visitor -- A defiant King -- A baptism -- One Christmas -- Camden -- Frankie -- Afterword.
Subject	Brown, Willie Mae -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
	African American children -- Alabama -- Selma -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Alabama -- Selma -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma -- Juvenile literature.
	Selma (Ala.) -- Juvenile literature.
	Selma (Ala.) -- Biography.
	Brown, Willie Mae.
	African American children -- Alabama -- Selma -- Biography.
	Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Selma.
	Selma (Ala.) -- Biography.
	African American children. (OCoLC)fst00799071
	Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
	Alabama -- Selma. (OCoLC)fst01216305
	African American children -- Juvenile literature.
	African American families -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights movements -- Juvenile literature.
	African American children.
	African American families.
	Civil rights movements.
	Selma (Ala.) -- Juvenile literature.
	Selma (Ala.)
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Autobiographies.
Added Title	True stories of a Southern childhood at the height of the civil rights movement
ISBN	9780374390235 (hardcover)
	0374390231 (hardcover)

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