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Abby Takes a Stand

By: Patricia C. McKissack
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
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Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milk shake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young listeners see what it was like to live through those days, and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each audiobook in this series tells the story behind a different "scrap of time"; together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.

©2005 Patricia C. McKissak (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Growing Up & Facts of Life Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Multicultural Stories
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