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Item Nr: B 110134 Title: Freedom Train
Grade Lvl: IJ Author: Coleman, Evelyn
Length: 140 Prod/Pub: Margaret McElderry
Copyright: 2008 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Twelve year old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place. AR 4.2. RC 3.7. Lexile 650.

  Subjects:
  1353 - BULLIES/BULLYING
  550 - GEORGIA
  1298 - HIGH INTEREST/LOW VOCABULARY
  591 - HISTORICAL FICTION
  1676 - LEXILE 600-699
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  700 - REALISTIC FICTION
  965 - SCHOOL STORIES