Dear Mr. Rosenwald

By Weatherford, Carole Boston & Christie, Gregory

Publishers Summary:
Young Ovella rejoices as her community comes together to raise money and build a much-needed school in the 1920s, with matching funds from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and support from Professor James of the Normal School.

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ISBN
978-0-43949-522-6
Publisher
New York : Scholastic Press, 2006.


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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

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