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Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American
Retail Price: $7.99
Ages: 09 - 12 Pages: 104
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 milk shake 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 this 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.