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Freedom Summer Hardcover - 2001

by Deborah Wiles; Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator)


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John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.

Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim.
But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is.
Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts.
This stirring account of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 powerfully and poignantly captures two boys' experience with racism and their friendship that defies it.

First line

In the early 1960s the American South had long been a place where black Americans could not drink from the same drinking fountains as whites, attend the same schools, or enjoy the same public areas.

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  • Title Freedom Summer
  • Author Deborah Wiles; Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Ninth Printing
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, NY
  • Date January 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780689830167 / 0689830165
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.23 x 9.24 x 0.38 in (25.98 x 23.47 x 0.97 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 600
  • Library of Congress subjects Race relations, Friendship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98052805
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

About the author

Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and grew up in an Air Force family, moving many times but digging deep roots into the Mississippi soil of her extended family. She still travels "down South" today from her longtime home in Frederick, Maryland, where she lives with her family and works as a freelance writer. She also teaches writing and oral history workshops--sharing with children how all history is really biography, and how every person's story is important. Freedom Summer is her first book. Jerome Lagarrigue was born and grew up in Paris, France, in a family of artists. Mr. Lagarrigue is the illustrator of Freedom Summer as well as My Man Blue by Nikki Grimes, and his work has also appeared in the New Yorker and on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he teaches drawing and painting at Parsons School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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