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The quickest kid in Clarksville
(2016)
By: Miller, Pat Zietlow

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
PICTURE/STORIES/MILLER,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Pic Stories PICTURE/STORIES/MILLER,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2016]
DESCRIPTION

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781452129365 (hbk.), 1452129363 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals

490L

Decoding demand: 58 (medium) Semantic demand: 80 (high) Syntactic demand: 55 (medium) Structure demand: 86 (very high)

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Morrison, Frank, 1971- illustrator

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Parades -- Fiction.

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Clarksville (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

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