Details

Subject(s)

• Segregation—United States—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• African Americans—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Automobile travel—United States—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Southern States—History—20th century—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Author

• Strauss, Gwen [Browse]

Illustrator

• Cooper, Floyd [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Historical fiction [Browse]
• Fiction [Browse]

Summary note

When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."

Notes

Includes a page on "The history of The Negro Motorist Green Book."

Target audience

• Elementary Grade.
• 700 Lexile.
• Grades 1-4 (SLJ).

Study program information

• Accelerated Reader 4.6.
• Reading Counts! 5.3.
• Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.6 0.5 138160.
• Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.3 2.0 51577.
• Accelerated Reader LG 4.6 .5.
• Reading Counts 3-5 5.3 2.
• AR LG 4.6 0.5.

Awards

American Library Association Notable Children's Books, 2011 ; Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices ; Jefferson Cup Award ; Texas Bluebonnet Award ; Bluestem Award ; ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award ; Sequoyah Book Award ; Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children's Literature ; Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children ; Independent Publisher Book Award ; Skipping Stones Book Award ; Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year ; Jane Addams Children's Book Award ; Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Book Award.

Binding note

Pub. color-printed pictorial boards with matching dust jacket and green endpapers.

ISBN

• 9780761352556 ((lib. bdg. ; : alk. paper))
• 0761352554 ((lib. bdg. ; : alk. paper))
• 9780329918132
• 0329918133

LCCN

2009034284

OCLC

444106533

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