My Selma : true stories of a Southern childhood at the height of the Civil Rights Movement
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023.
Physical Description
229 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 7-9 Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
Summary
"A stirring memoir of growing up Black in a town at the epicenter of the fight for freedom, equality, and human rights"--
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.
Subjects
- African American children > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American families > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights movements > Juvenile literature.
- African American children > Biography.
- African American families.
- Civil rights movements.
- Selma (Ala.) > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Selma (Ala.) > Biography.
- Brown, Willie Mae > Juvenile literature.
- Brown, Willie Mae.