Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue
There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could... read more
- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2007
Word Count 1,460
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 660L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 85292, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Lists With This Book
- Exploring the Civil Rights Movement
- Books for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- African American Heritage and Culture
- Black History Celebration
- Activism and Organizing
- Black History Elementary
- Civil Rights Teaching
- Black Lives Matter: Black Villages
- Black Lives Matter: Collective Value
- Black Lives Matter: Empathy
- BLM: Unapologetically Black
- Black Lives Matter: Intergenerational
- Sample: Bookworms
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