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Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan

Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers (2014)

Dewey: 379.2
Classification: Nonfiction
Physical Description: 40 p., col. ill., 29 cm.

BTSB No: 884833

ISBN: 9781419710544

Ages: 6-9

Grades: 1-4

Subjects:
Mendez, Sylvia, -- 1936- -- Childhood and youth
School integration
Latinos (U.S.) -- Education
Latinos (U.S.) -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Price: $6.50

Summary:
Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California.

Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: LG
   Reading Level: 5.10
   Points: .5   Quiz: 164558

Reading Counts Information:
   Interest Level: K-2
   Reading Level: 4.60
   Points: 2.0   Quiz: 63114

Awards:
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, 2015

Common Core Standards
   Grade 1 → Reading → RI Informational Text → 1.RI Key Ideas & Details
   Grade 1 → Reading → RI Informational Text → 1.RI Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
   Grade 2 → Reading → RI Informational Text → 2.RI Key Ideas & Details
   Grade 2 → Reading → RI Informational Text → 2.RI Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (+) (05/15/14)
   School Library Journal (02/01/17)
   Booklist (05/01/14)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (07/14)
The Hornbook (00/07/14)

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