Book
With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson
Call Number
- J PINK (CEN, OSH)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Scholastic, 2011.
Physical Description
324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Series
Summary
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Notes
"Hadley, Virginia, 1954"--Cover.
Subjects
- School integration > Juvenile fiction.
- Schools > Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Virginia > Juvenile fiction.
- Diaries > Juvenile fiction.
- School integration > Fiction.
- Schools > Fiction.
- Race relations > Fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Family life > Virginia > Fiction.
- Diaries > Fiction.
- Virginia > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Virginia > History > 20th century > Fiction.