Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It
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From a bestselling and award-winning husband and wife team comes an innovative, beautifully illustrated novel that delivers a front-row seat to the groundbreaking moments in history that led to African Americans earning the right to vote.
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B., members of the Little family, each present the vivid story of their young lives, spanning three generations. Their separate stories—beginning in a cotton field in 1927 and ending at the presidential election of 1968—come together to create one unforgettable journey.
Through an evocative mix of fictional first-person narratives, spoken-word poems, folk myths, gospel rhythms and blues influences, Loretta Little Looks Back weaves an immersive tapestry that illuminates the dignity of sharecroppers in the rural South. Inspired by storytelling's oral tradition, stirring vignettes are presented in a series of theatrical monologues that paint a gripping, multidimensional portrait of America's struggle for civil rights as seen through the eyes of the children who lived it. The novel's unique format invites us to walk in their shoes. Each encounters an unexpected mystical gift, passed down from one family member to the next, that ignites their experience what it means to reach for freedom.
| SKU | 128024 |
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| ISBN | 9780316536776 |
| Language | English |
| Page Count | 224 |
| Product Type | Hardcover Books |
| Book Type | Middle Grade Novels |
| Additional Contributor | Brian Pinkney |
| Primary Contributor | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| Age Groups | Ages 7 to 9, Ages 10 to 12, Ages 13 to 15 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |