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Author

Smith, Nikki Shannon, 1971- author.

Title Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Markia Jenai.

Publication Info.

North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint [2022]

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Series	J Smith	---	Available

Description	103 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
	text txt rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Series	Girls survive
	Girls survive.
Summary	Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Audience	4-6. Stone Arch Books.
	8-12 Brodart.
	3-7 Brodart.
Subject	African American families -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American families -- Fiction.
	Massacres -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Massacres -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
	Survival -- Fiction.
	Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921 -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American neighborhoods -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American neighborhoods -- Fiction.
	Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
	Race relations -- Fiction.
	Massacres -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism.
	Greenwood (Tulsa, Oklahoma) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Greenwood (Tulsa, Oklahoma) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Greenwood (Tulsa, Oklahoma) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Historical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
Added Author	Jenai, Markia, illustrator.
Other Form:	Online version: Smith, Nikki Shannon, 1971 Lena and the burning of Greenwood North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022 9781666329452 (DLC) 2021033201
ISBN	9781663990563 $25.99
	1663990565 $25.99
	9781663990563