Night on fire
Title
:
Night on fire
Author
:
Kidd, Ronald, author.
ISBN
:
9780807570241
Physical Description
:
264 pages ; 21 cm
Reading Level
:
600 L Lexile
Subject Term
:
Civil rights movements -- Fiction.
Segregation -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Fiction.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Social change -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- Fiction.
Anniston (Ala.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Alabama -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Alabama -- Race relations -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Summary
:
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
| Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Stillwater Public Library | J FICTION KID | Children's Fiction |