Richard Wright and the library card

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Richard Wright and the library card

by William Miller ; illustrated by Gregory Christie

Lee & Low Books, c1997

1st ed

  • : pbk

Available at  / 4 libraries

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Summary: A fictionalized account of an important event in Wright's life, based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom

A Smithsonian Notable Children's Book and a Society of School Librarians International Honor Book

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