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The quickest kid in Clarksville
- Title
- The quickest kid in Clarksville / by Pat Zietlow Miller ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.
- Author
- Miller, Pat Zietlow
- Publication
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2016]
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 17-1250 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Morrison, Frank, 1971-
- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
- Subjects
- African American girls
- Segregation
- Role models
- Rudolph, Wilma, 1940-1994
- JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > United States > African American
- JUVENILE FICTION > Biographical > United States
- Juvenile works
- Role models > Fiction
- Clarksville (Tenn.) > History > 20th century > Fiction
- African Americans > Fiction
- Segregation > Fiction
- Role models > Juvenile fiction
- African American girls > Tennessee > Clarksville > Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- 1900-1999
- JUVENILE FICTION > Social Themes > Prejudice & Racism
- Rudolph, Wilma, 1940-1994 > Juvenile fiction
- Tennessee > Clarksville
- Picture books
- Parades > Fiction
- Fiction
- Running > Fiction
- History
- Parades > Tennessee > Clarksville > Juvenile fiction
- Clarksville (Tenn.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
- Segregation > Tennessee > Clarksville > Juvenile fiction
- Genre/Form
- Picture books.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Historical fiction.
- Note
- "A Junior Library Guild selection."--Front flap of dust jacket.
- Awards (note)
- 2017 Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-1250
- ISBN
- 9781452129365
- 1452129363
- LCCN
- 2014018358
- 40027176189
- OCLC
- 883962328
- Author
- Miller, Pat Zietlow, author.
- Title
- The quickest kid in Clarksville / by Pat Zietlow Miller ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2016]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- 2017 Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Morrison, Frank, 1971- illustrator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027176189
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-1250