Richard loved the sound of words.
An edition of Richard Wright and the library card
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Richard Wright and the library card
by William Miller, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrated by Gregory Christie, and R. Gregory Christie
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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.
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African Americans, Afronorteamericanos, Bibliotecas, Books and reading, Ficción juvenil, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Libraries, Libros y lectura, Children's fiction, Libraries, fiction, African americans, fiction, Books and reading, fiction, Spanish language materials, Discrimination in education, African American authors, JUVENILE NONFICTION, Literature, Adaptations, Books & Libraries, Social Topics, Black boy (Wright, Richard), Prejudice & Racism, Segregation, African Americans and libraries, HistoryPeople
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Richard Wright and the library card
1997, Lee & Low Books
in English
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Originally published: 1998.
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