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Freedom on the Menu

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator: Jerome LaGarrrigue

Ages: 9+

Published: 2005

Publisher: Dial

ISBN: 0-8037-2860-3

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An eight-year-old girl witnesses one of the significant events in the fight for integration. Soft, muted paintings.