Freedom Summer

Resource Information

The work Freedom Summer represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Freedom Summer

Statement of responsibility

written by Deborah Wiles ; illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue

Creator

• trueWiles, Deborah
• trueDaly, Catherine

Contributor

• Lagarrigue, Jerome

Illustrator

• Lagarrigue, Jerome

Subject

• Authors' presentation inscription (Provenance) -- Wiles -- 2001
• trueBears
• trueBest friends
• trueBoys -- Friendship
• Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2001
• Fiction
• Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Illustrators' presentation inscription (Provenance) -- Lagarrigue -- 2001
• trueInterracial friendship
• Juvenile works
• trueLove
• trueMississippi -- Race relations
• truePrejudice
• Race relations -- Fiction
• trueRacism
• Racism -- Fiction
• trueSegregation
• trueSouthern States -- Race relations
• trueAfrican American boys
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Fiction
• Dust jackets (Bindings)
• Authors' presentation inscription (Provenance)
• Illustrators' presentation inscription (Provenance)

Language

eng

Summary

In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is black, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists

Tone

• trueSerious

Writing style

• trueThoughtful
• trueDialect-filled

Illustration

• trueMuted
• trueImpressionistic
• trueDetailed

Award

• Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, 2002.
• Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, 2002.
• John Steptoe Award for New Talent, Illustrator Category, 2002.

Awards note

• Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Book Award, 2002.
• Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Book Award, 2002.
• Coretta Scott King Award, John Steptoe Award for New Talent, illustrator, 2002.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[E]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Elementary Grade
• 460

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• LG
• K-2

LC call number

PZ7.W6474

LC item number

Fr 2001

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• -1
• 2

Reading level

• 3.2.
• 4.7.
• 3.2
• 2.7

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

primary