Awards

• Commended for Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Books for Older Children) 2008
• Short-listed for North Carolina Children's Book Award (Junior Book) 2009
• Short-listed for Rhode Island Children's Book Awards 2009
• Winner of Jefferson Cup (Young Adults) 2008

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9781590784402

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* A gorgeous memorial to the four killed on that horrible day, and to the thousands of children who braved violence to help change the world. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review * Filled with emotion. . . . This is a book that should be in every library collection. --Library Media Connection, starred review * An intimate experience. . . . An emotional read, made even more accessible and powerful by the viewpoint of the child narrator. --School Library Journal, starred review

It's a gorgeous memorial to the four killed on that horrible day, and to the thousands of children who braved violence to help change the world. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford’s 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer,and Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com.

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