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Richard Wright and the library card by William Miller, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrated by Gregory Christie · Booklabria

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Richard Wright and the library card

HistoryChildren's fiction

Richard Wright and the library card

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First published: 1997
Editions: 11 in 2 languages

Synopsis

Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
African Americans
Spanish language materials
Ficción juvenil
Books and reading
Set in: United States
Time: 20th Century
Characters: Richard Wright

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11 in 2 languages

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English6 Spanish5

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