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Goin' someplace special / Patricia C. McKissack ; Jerry Pinkney.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ7.M478693 Go 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Segregation--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- African American girls--Juvenile fiction.
- African American girls.
- African Americans and libraries--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans and libraries.
- Public libraries--Juvenile fiction.
- Public libraries.
- Nineteen fifties--Juvenile fiction.
- Nineteen fifties.
- Courage in children--Juvenile fiction.
- Courage in children.
- Anger in children--Juvenile fiction.
- Anger in children.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
- Nashville (Tenn.).
- Segregation--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- The Fifties (20th century)--Fiction.
- Public libraries--Fiction.
- African American girls--Fiction.
- African Americans--Segregation--Fiction.
- African American families--Fiction.
- Anger in girls--Fiction.
- Courage in girls--Fiction.
- Equality--Fiction.
- Justice--Fiction.
- Nashville (Tenn.)--Fiction.
- Children's literature.
- Children's stories.
- Picture books.
- Segregation.
- Tennessee--Nashville.
- Genre:
- Picture books.
- Children's stories.
- Children's literature.
- Historical fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Going someplace special
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London ; Toronto : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [©2001]
- Summary:
- 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. When her grandmother sees that she's ready to take such a big step, 'Tricia Ann hurries to catch the bus heading downtown. But 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 even 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.
- Notes:
- "An Anne Schwartz book."
- "Book design by Ann Bobco."
- "The text of this book is set in Garamond BE."
- "The illustrations are rendered in pencil and watercolor on paper."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "This is my story. Although the setting has been fictionalized, the events are taken from my own childhood growing up in Nashville, Tennessee ... In the late 1950s, Nashville's public library board of directors quietly voted to integrate all their facilities. The downtown branch was one of the few places where there were no Jim Crow signs and blacks were treated with some respect."--Author's Note.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Winner, 2002
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy has post-it note "Return to Jerry" pasted to front free endpaper.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McKissack, Pat, 1944- Goin' someplace special.
- ISBN:
- 9780689818851
- 0689818858
- OCLC:
- 43050147
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