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Goin' Someplace Special

Goin' Someplace Special

McKissack, Patricia C.
Pinkney, Jerry

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ISBN10: 0689818858
ISBN13: 9780689818851
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.50 Width: 9.13 Depth: 11.95
Language: English
Awards: Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Bluebonnet Awards, Bookseller's Choice, California Young Reader Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Georgia Children's Book Award, Monarch Award, North Carolina Children's Book Award, Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007), South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
Through moving prose and beautiful watercolors, a Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Medal-winning author-illustrator duo collaborate to tell the poignant tale of a spirited young girl who comes face to face with segregation in her southern town.

There's a place in this 1950s southern town where all are welcome, no matter what their skin color...and 'Tricia Ann knows exactly how to get there. To her, it's someplace special and she's bursting to go by herself. But when she catches the bus heading downtown, unlike the white passengers, she must sit in the back behind the Jim Crow sign and wonder why life's so unfair.

Still, for each hurtful sign seen and painful comment heard, there's a friend around the corner reminding 'Tricia Ann that she's not alone. And her grandmother's words--You are somebody, a human being--no better, no worse than anybody else in this world--echo in her head, lifting her spirits and pushing her forward.

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