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A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner

A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner - Paperback

by Marilyn Nelson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-01-12Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:Clarion BooksISBN-13:9780547076362ISBN-10:547076363UPC:9780547076362Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Boys & Men, Historical, Social ThemesBook Topic:United States, ViolenceSize:7.30 x 7.80 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCVNTH94KQ
2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book

In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention.

Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to "speak what we see."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Clarion BooksISBN-13:9780547076362ISBN-10:547076363UPC:9780547076362Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Boys & Men, Historical, Social ThemesBook Topic:United States, ViolenceSize:7.30 x 7.80 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCVNTH94KQ
Nelson, Marilyn: - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.Nelson, Marilyn: - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.Lardy, Philippe: - Philippe Tardy is an award winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Boston Globe.
Publisher: Clarion Books

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Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)

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