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Author:

Cooper, Desiree, author.

Title:

Nothing special / written by Desiree Cooper ; illustrated by Bec Sloane.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Subject:

Grandparent and child--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Families, Black--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Families, Black--Fiction.
Children's stories.

Other Authors:

Sloane, Bec, illustrator.

Summary:

"Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated entirely of repurposed textiles, Nothing Special celebrates the enduring connection between the generations who stayed in the South and the millions of emigrants for whom it will always be home. Between 1910 and 1970, more than six million African Americans left the Jim Crow South, but they never forgot the culture, the land, and the family they left behind. In the decades since, it has become a summer ritual for many black families to reverse the journey and return South for a visit to their homeplaces

Series:

African American Life Series

ISBN:

9780814349731
0814349730

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

CVPA586 -- Letts Public Library (Letts)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)