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Author
Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011
Title
Leon's story / Leon Walter Tillage ; collage art by Susan L. Roth.
Imprint
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
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Call No.
Status
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department
JB TILLAGE T
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Edition
Sunburst ed.
Description
107 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Awards
ALA Notables, 1998
Summary
The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
Note
"A Sunburst book."
Audience
Young Adult.
Study Program
3-5 4.0 Reading Counts RC 6.8 13164.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 2.0 25238.
Subject
Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011 -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Fuquay-Varina -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Fuquay-Varina (N.C.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography.
North Carolina -- Race relations.
Civil rights movements -- History.
Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011 (OCoLC)fst00380016
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
North Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204304
North Carolina -- Fuquay-Varina.
(OCoLC)fst01220243
Tillage, Leon, 1936-
Civil rights movements -- History.
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Biography.
North Carolina -- Race relations.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Genre/Form
Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Literature.
Biographies.
Added Author
Roth, Susan L., illustrator.
ISBN
0374443300 (pbk.)
9780374443306 (pbk.)
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