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Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / Duncan Tonatiuh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.Description: 40 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781419710544
Other title:
  • Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
  • Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 379.2/63 23
LOC classification:
  • LC214.2 .T66 2014
Other classification:
  • JNF025210 | JNF018030 | JNF053140
Awards:
  • Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2015
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award/Honors, 2015
Summary: "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.
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Beverly Middle School 379.2 TON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 704583

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39) and index.

School Library Journal starred, May 2014

Publisher's Weekly, March 2014

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Kirkus Starred, June 2014

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Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2014

Christian Library, September 2015

"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.

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Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2015

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award/Honors, 2015