Title: Freedom Summer
Author: Deborah Wiles
Illustrator: Jerome Lagarrigue
Award(s):
Winner United
States
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award - New Writer, 2002
Winner United
States
Jefferson Cup Award, 2002 Honor Book United States
Reading level/ Lexile
Level: 460
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
Freedom Summer is book that takes place in the south
in 1964 when the law was passed that would allow John Henry and Joe to swim in
the same pool despite their different skin colors. Through the boys story you
see what segregation meant to children back then. However, when the law is
passed John Henry and Joe go to the community pool to swim, only to find out
that it is being filled in. The boys discover that even though the law has
changed people do not always follow them. At the end of the story both boys go
to a once segregated store and enter through the front door and sit together to
share their ice pops.
Resources/Activities:
1. Author's Website-- http://deborahwiles.com/site/resources-for-educators/
2. Here is a website that it about teaching peace using this book and provides lots of critical thinking questions and activities --http://www.teachpeacenow.org/book_freedomsummer.html
Reference:
Wiles, D.,
Lagarrigue, J., & Bobco, A. (2001). Freedom Summer. New York, NY:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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