Full name: Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780803728608 9780142408940 0803728603 0142408948

When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs that have let her drink only from certain water fountains and which bar her from local pools and some stores, but still . . . she'd love to sit at the lunch counter, just like she's seen other girls do. Showing how an ordinary family becomes involved in the great and personal cause of their times, it's a tale that invites everyone to celebrate our country's everyday heroes, of all ages. Similar books: A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles The Gardener by Sarah Stewart Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston Unspoken by Henry Cole That Book Woman by Heather Henson Coming On Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson Home in The Woods by Eliza Wheeler When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell January's Sparrow by Patricia Polacco