Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Civil rights—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Grandfathers—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Hand—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Illustrator

• Cooper, Floyd [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Picture books for children [Browse]

Summary note

• An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note.
• "Joseph's grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curveball, and tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat. But in the 1950s and 60s, he could not bake bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Factory bosses said white people would not want to eat bread touched by the hands of the African Americans who worked there. In this powerful intergenerational story, Joseph learns that people joined their hands together to fight discrimination so that one day, their hands--Joseph's hands--could do anything at all in this whole wide world." -- Publisher's description

Target audience

• AD490L Lexile
• Decoding: 3 (medium) Vocabulary: 4 (hard) Sentences: 5 (very hard) Patterns: 3 (medium) lexile

Study program information

Accelerated Reader LG 2.8 0.5.

Awards

Charlotte Zolotow Award: Highly Commended

Binding note

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

ISBN

• 9780547215662
• 0547215665

LCCN

2010006782

OCLC

598304915

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