Title Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Markia Jenai.

Publication Info.

North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2022]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department	J SERIES BLUE GIRLS SURVIVE	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department	J SMITH	Check Shelf
Granby, Main Library - Children's New	NEW J SERIES GIRLS SURVIVE	DUE 05-08-24
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	J-PB GIRLS SURVIVE	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department	J GIRLS SURVIVE	Check Shelf
Southington Library - Children	J Historical SMITH	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Fiction	J GIRLS SURVIVE	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department	J-GIRLS SURVIVE	Check Shelf
Windsor, Wilson Branch - Children's Department	J-SMITH	Check Shelf

Description	103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series	Girls survive
	Girls survive.
Audience	Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
	Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
Summary	Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Subject	African American families -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Massacres -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American neighborhoods -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Race relations -- Fiction.
	Survival -- Fiction.
	Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
Added Author	Jenai, Markia, illustrator.
ISBN	9781663990563 (lib. bdg.)
	1663990565 (lib. bdg.)
	9781666329445 (paperback)
	1666329444 (paperback)

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