Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
By (Author) Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue Lagarrigue
Penguin Putnam Inc
Penguin USA
27th December 2007
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
FIC
Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Picture Storybook) 2010
Paperback
32
Width 256mm, Height 230mm, Spine 3mm
142g
There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie's town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.
Simple and straightforward, the first-person narrative relates events within the context of one close-knit family. (Booklist)
Carole Boston Weatherford lives in High Point, North Carolina.