| Contents |
I'll figure it out later -- When fear comes home -- Black is an inconvenient color -- A head full of questions -- A church full of angels -- Rules of my survival -- Dimming the light of my dream -- Into the real world outside -- I'm not alone -- Becoming a real student -- The world is my birthday gift -- Hope that the world can be mine -- Blessed -- Santa is in town -- Television and bomb shelters -- Finding my piece of the pie -- Angel in a white sheet -- Who is Jim Crow? -- My life forges ahead -- Marching forward. |
| Abstract |
"From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes a powerful, timely new memoir about growing up in the segregated South. Civil rights heroine Melba Patillo Beals puts readers right in her saddle oxfords as she struggles to understand--and fight back against--the laws that told her she was less just because of the color of her skin. Includes photos and illustrations"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Interest age level |
Ages 10 and up |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 6-12 |
| Audience |
950 Lexile |
| Reading Program |
Accelerated Reader 5.9 7. |
| Awards note | Junior Library Guild selection, 2018 |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2017051269 |
| ISBN | 9781328882127 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1328882128 (hardcover) |
