Freedom school, yes! / Amy Littlesugar ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Littlesugar, Amy, author.

Contributor:

Cooper, Floyd, illustrator.

Jacobs, Sharon Murray, book designer.

Philomel Books, publisher.

South China Printing Co., printer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippi Freedom Schools--Juvenile fiction.

Mississippi Freedom Schools.

Mississippi Freedom Schools--Fiction.

African Americans--Picture books.

African Americans.

Schools--Picture books.

Schools.

Mississippi--Race relations--Picture books.

Mississippi.

African Americans--Fiction.

Mississippi--Race relations--Fiction.

Schools--Fiction.

Race relations.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Picture books.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

Hong Kong: South China Printing Co.

Place of Publication:

New York : Philomel Books, 2001.

Summary:

When their house is attacked because her mother volunteered to take in the young white woman who has come to teach black children at the Freedom School, Jolie is afraid, but she overcomes her fear after learning the value of education.

Notes:

"Text copyright ©2001 by Amy Littlesugar"--colophon.

"Illustrations copyright ©2001 by Floyd Cooper"--colophon.

"Printed in Hong Kong by South China Printing Co."--colophon

"Book design by Sharon Murray Jacobs"--colophon.

"The text is set in 14-point Baskerville Book"--colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy formerly owned by a library.

ISBN:

0399230068

9780399230066

OCLC:

42649627

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