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Abby Takes a Stand

Patricia C. McKissack

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices.

Each book in the series tells the story behind a different ‘scrap of time; together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: The Viking Press, Inc.

Release: July 21, 2005

ISBN: 0670060119

ISBN 13: 9780670060115

Abby Takes a Stand

Patricia C. McKissack

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices.

Each book in the series tells the story behind a different ‘scrap of time; together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.

Language: English

Pages: 112

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: The Viking Press, Inc.

Release: July 21, 2005

ISBN: 0670060119

ISBN 13: 9780670060115

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