Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

by Carole Boston Weatherford (Author) Jerome Lagarrigue Lagarrigue (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go.

But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie's town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.

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Simple and straightforward, the first-person narrative relates events within the context of one close-knit family. 

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Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford lives in High Point, North Carolina.
Classification
-
ISBN-13
9780142408940
Lexile Measure
660
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
December 27, 2007
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV011010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
JUV016110 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - General
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
Race relations
North Carolina
Civil rights demonstrations
Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)
Georgia Children's Book Award
Nominee 2010 - 2010

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