Freedom Summer By Deborah Wiles

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Title	:	Freedom Summer
Author	:	Deborah Wiles
Format	:	Paperback
Page	:	32 pages
ISBN	:	068987829X

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John Henry swims better than anyone I know He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn t swim in the town pool with me He s not allowed Joe and John Henry are a lot alike They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim But there s one important way they re different Joe is white and John Henry John Henry swims better than anyone I know He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn t swim in the town pool with me He s not allowed Joe and John Henry are a lot alike They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim But there s one important way they re different Joe is white and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn t allowed to do everything his best friend is Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other thereonly to discover that it takes than a new law to change people s hearts

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about Author

Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and spent her summers in a small Mississippi town with an extended family full of characters She writes about them and they live on in her stories She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and taught at Towson University in Maryland, Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Vermont College.Deborah has written three novels about growing up in Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and spent her summers in a small Mississippi town with an extended family full of characters She writes about them and they live on in her stories She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and taught at Towson University in Maryland, Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Vermont College.Deborah has written three novels about growing up in the south They are known as the Aurora County Trilogy Love, Ruby Lavender, Each Little Bird That Sings, The Aurora County All Stars.The Sixties Trilogy is Deborah s newest project, three documentary novels of the 1960s Book 1 is COUNTDOWN 1962 , book 2 is REVOLUTION 1964 , and book three in progress is tentatively titled TRIBE 1969.Picture books by Deborah are FREEDOM SUMMER ONE WIDE SKY and a forthcoming book about Robert Kennedy

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Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)

Each Little Bird that Sings

Love, Ruby Lavender

Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy, #2)

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Title: Freedom Summer
Posted by:Deborah Wiles
Published :2016-03-09T04:01+01:00
John Henry swims better than anyone I know He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn t swim in the town pool with

Freedom Summer

Deborah Wiles32 pagesDeborah Wiles