This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy

Book Overview

Recipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor
Winner of the 2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
A NYPL Top Ten of 2019
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681198525
• ISBN13: 9781681198521
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8