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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2006
Gr 2-5 Set in the rural South in the early 1920s, this simple, respectful story examines one communitys efforts to build a new school for African-American children with seed money provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Each spread features a prose poem told in the voice of a student. Readers learn about the difficult decision to accept the challengewhich the Sears Roebuck executive extended to more than 500...Log In or Sign Up to Read More