Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down
By Andrea Davis Pinkney
Read by Myra Lucretia Taylor
Unabridged
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781664401730
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ISBN: 9781664509566
| Runtime: | 0.37 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Audience: | Children (8–12) |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
The recipient of a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, Andrea Davis Pinkney is the popular author of numerous picture books and young adult novels. Sit-In recounts the historic events of 1960, when four black college students attempted to integrate a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. ". powerful, elemental, and historic story of those who stood up to oppressive authority and changed the world."-Booklist, starred reviewAuthor
Author Bio: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney, the award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, has been recognized by the Coretta Scott King Author Award committee with an honor for Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters and a medal for Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. She is a four-time nominee for the NAACP Image Award. In addition to her work as an author, Ms. Pinkney is a publishing executive. She has been named one of the “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business” by the Network Journal and is among Children’s Health magazine’s “25 Most Influential People in Our Children's Lives.”
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 0.37 |
| Audience: | Children (8–12) |
| Language: | English |
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