Ellen Beier
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Lexile measure
NC 630L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 46 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, led to a bus boycott that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.