How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

Carole Boston Weatherford (Author) Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
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Product Type: Hardcover Books
Age Groups: Ages 7 to 9, Ages 10 to 12

From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against discrimination: the story of young spelling champion MacNolia Cox.

MacNolia Cox was no ordinary kid.
Her idea of fun was reading the dictionary.

In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. She left her home state a celebrity—right up there with Ohio’s own Joe Louis and Jesse Owens—with a military band and a crowd of thousands to see her off at the station. But celebration turned to chill when the train crossed the state line into Maryland, where segregation was the law of the land. Prejudice and discrimination ruled—on the train, in the hotel, and, sadly, at the spelling bee itself. With a brief epilogue recounting MacNolia’s further history, How Do You Spell Unfair? is the story of her groundbreaking achievement magnificently told by award-winning creators and frequent picture-book collaborators Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison.

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SKU 142422
ISBN 9781536215540
Language English
Lexile ® Measure 840L
Guided Reading Level U
Page Count 40
Product Type Hardcover Books
Book Type Picture Books
Additional Contributor Frank Morrison
Primary Contributor Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Groups Ages 7 to 9, Ages 10 to 12
Publisher Candlewick Press