Birmingham Sunday

by Larry Dane Brimner

Book Overview

Jane Addams Children's Honor Book
NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year

This nonfiction picture book focuses on Birmingham Sunday, a fateful day and significant part of the Civil Rights movement, and places it in historical context.

Racial bombings were so frequent in Birmingham, Alabama that it became known as "Bombingham." Until September 15, 1963, these attacks had been threatening...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590786130
• ISBN13: 9781590786130
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.1" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8