Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011.

Title Leon's story / Leon Tillage, with pictures by Susan L. Roth.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Juvenile Non-Fiction  J92 Tillage    ---  Available
 Nettels Biography  B TILLAGE    ---  Available
 PCMS True Stories  TR TILLAGE    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 107 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Indexed In: Kirkus, Oxtober 15, 1997
School Library Jl., December 1997
Booklist starred, October 01, 1997
The Horn Book starred, November 1997
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, December 1997
Summary The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
Audience 008-012 BTSB.
Study Program Accelerated Reader ATOS-AR RL 4.9 2.0 PCMS
Awards Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, 1998
Subject Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Tillage, Leon Walter, 1936-2011.
Tillage Leon Walter, 1936-2011
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Fuquay-Varina -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Afro-Americans -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- History.
African Americans -- Biography.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Fuquay-Varina (N.C.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
North Carolina -- Race relations.
North Carolina -- Race relations.
Added Author Roth, Susan L., illustrator.
ISBN 0374343799

 
    
Available items only