ERIC Number: EJ704457
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun-1
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0362-8930
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Justice Served: True Tales of Injustice Will Provoke and Inspire Young Readers
Baxter, Kathleen
School Library Journal, v50 n6 p39 Jun 2004
Stories about people treated unfairly stir something deep in the psyche. This article briefly discusses three stories that involve people being treated unfairly: (1) Chris Crowe's Getting Away with Murder: The Tree Story' of the Emmett Till Case; (2) Michael Cooper's Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp; and (3) Deborah Hopkinson's Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924.
Descriptors: Books, Nonfiction, Reading Materials, Children, Japanese Americans, Institutionalized Persons, Immigrants, Living Standards, African Americans, Racial Discrimination
School Library Journal, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. Web site: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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