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Publication
Margaret K. McElderry Books (2008), Edition: Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed, 160 pages
Description
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.
Awards
Parents' Choice Book Award (2008)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2010-2011)
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0689847165 / 9780689847165
DDC/MDS
| 305.2 |