Separate is never equal : the story of Sylvia Mendez and her family /
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TextPublisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014Description: 40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN: - 9781419710544 (hardback)
- 1419710540 (hardback)
- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936-
- School integration -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans -- Education -- Juvenile literature
- Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- School integration -- United States
- Hispanic Americans -- Education
- Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 379.2/63 23
- LC214.2 .T66 2014
- JNF025210 | JNF018030 | JNF053140
- Pura Belpr�e Illustrator Honor, 2015 ; Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2015 ; Orbis Pictus Honor, 2015
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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JNF
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Chamberlin Free Public Library | Juvenile Nonfiction | J 379.2 TON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34480000529499 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.
"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 5.1.
Pura Belpr�e Illustrator Honor, 2015 ; Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2015 ; Orbis Pictus Honor, 2015
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