Summary: A ten-year-old girl narrates this fictionalized story, based on real events and people, of how her rural southern town builds a new school for African American children with the help of Julius Rosenwald (then president of Sears Roebuck). (from readingrockets.org)
Where can I find it?: Lower/Middle School library, Lithgow building
Tags: Schools; Segregation in education; Southern States; Julius Rosenwald Fund; African Americans; Rosenwald schools