Publisher: Scholastic Book Service

Copyright Date: 2019

Edition Date: 2019 Release Date: 04/30/19

Pages: 324 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 1-338-53095-X Perma-Bound: 0-7804-5771-4

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-1-338-53095-7 Perma-Bound: 978-0-7804-5771-3

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2011001363

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
School integration. Fiction.
Schools. Fiction.
Race relations. Fiction.
African Americans. Fiction.
Family life. Virginia. Fiction.
Diaries. Fiction.
Virginia. History. 20th century. Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 54,862

Reading Level: 4.8

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.8 / points: 8.0 / quiz: 146291 / grade: Middle Grades

Lexile: 740L

Bestselling author and Coretta Scott King Award winner Andrea Davis Pinkney presents a moving fictional account of school desegregation in the Civil Rights Era.

Twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson's life turns upside down after the Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregation in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. Her parents decide that Dawnie will attend Prettyman Coburn, a previously all-white school -- but she'll be the only one of her friends to enroll in this new school.Not everyone in Dawnie's town of Hadley, Virginia, supports integration, though, and much of the community is outraged by the decision. As she starts school, Dawnie encounters the harsh realities of racism. But the backlash against her arrival at Prettyman Coburn is more than she's prepared for, and she begins to wonder if the hardship is worth it. Will Dawnie be able to hold on to the true meaning of justice and remain faithful to her own sense of integrity?