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Author:

Pinkney, Andrea Davis, author.

Title:

With the might of angels : A Dear America Novel / Andrea Davis Pinkney.

Publisher:

Scholastic Inc.

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

324 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Subject:

School integration--Juvenile fiction.
School integration--Fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Virginia--Juvenile fiction.
Diaries--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
School stories.
Family life--Virginia--Fiction.
Virginia--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Virginia--History--Fiction.
Virginia--History--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Diary fiction.

Summary:

In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.

Series:

Dear America novel
Dear America book

Indexed by:

Wilson's Children, October 2012.
Wilson's Junior High School, October 2012.
School Library Journal, September 2011.
Booklist, September 2011.
Horn Book, April 2012.
Teacher Librarian, December 2016.
Kirkus Review, September 2011.
Parents' Choice, January 2011.
Wilson's Children.
Wilson's Junior High School.
School Library Journal.

ISBN:

1725418487
9781725418486

Locations:

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)