Tugging String: a Novel about Growing up During the Civil Rights Era A Novel about Growing up During the Civil Rights Era

Name: Tugging String: a Novel about Growing up During the Civil Rights Era A Novel about Growing up During the Civil Rights Era
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ISBN: 9780525479673

ISBN-10: 0525479678

ISBN-13: 9780525479673

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Greenberg

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Duvy Greenberg is an ordinary twelve-year-old trying to fit in. He knows that his father, Jack, is a civil rights lawyer, but Duvy lives worlds away from Dorothy Milton, a black woman struggling to become a registered voter in Selma, Alabama. When Dorothy reaches out to Martin Luther King Jr. for help, she sets in motion a series of events thatwith Jack Greenbergs helpwill open Duvys eyes to the reality of racial inequality and forever change the course of history. Blending facts, speeches, memories, and conjecture, this novel portrays the emotions and events surrounding the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 10/16/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

David Greenberg teaches history at Yale University. Formerly an editor of The New Republic, he writes for Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other national publications. He lives in Manhattan and in New Haven.