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Author Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Title Freedom in Congo Square / by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Little Bee Books, [2016]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J PIC EXPLORE WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J PICTURE WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  J PIC. BK WEA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library – Children’s Picture Book Collection  JE WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  STEP_UP JE WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J PICTURE BOOK WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J E WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  PEOPLE & PLACES E WEA    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  JP WEA    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JJ WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Awards Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner, 2017
Summary Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.
Study Program Accelerated Reader 5.4.
Reading Counts! 3.2.
Awards Caldecott Honor, 2017.
Coretta Scott King Honor (Illustrator), 2017.
Subject African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.
Congo Square (New Orleans, La.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Picture books for children.
Stories in rhyme.
Slavery -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Stories in rhyme.
Slavery -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Congo Square (New Orleans, La.) -- Fiction.
New List 20160229.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Congo Square.
Picture books (OCoLC)fst01063714
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00799703
Louisiana -- New Orleans. (OCoLC)fst01204311
Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Congo Square. (OCoLC)fst01322513
Genre/Form Stories in rhyme (OCoLC)fst01921738
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Stories in rhyme.
Picture books for children.
Added Author Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- illustrator.
ISBN 9781499801033 (hardcover)
1499801033 (hardcover)
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