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Freedom in Congo Square / by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (author.). Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- (illustrator.). Evans, Freddi Williams, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.

Record details

ISBN: 9781499801033
ISBN: 1499801033
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Little Bee Books, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / by Freddi Williams Evans -- [Freedom in Congo Square] -- Glossary -- Author's note.
Target Audience Note:	AD600L Lexile Decoding demand: 71 (high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 80 (high) Structure demand: 75 (high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader 5.4. Reading Counts! 3.2. Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.4 0.5 179189.
Awards Note:	Caldecott Honor, 2017 Coretta Scott King Honor (Illustrator), 2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner, 2017