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Night on fire Cover Image Book Book

Night on fire

Kidd, Ronald, (author.).

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780807570265
  • ISBN: 0807570265
  • Physical Description: 264 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes discussion questions (p. [271-274).
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Study Program Information Note:
Reading Counts! 3.4.

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Genre: Historical fiction
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.

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