An edition of Leon's Story (Sunburst Books) (2000)

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An edition of Leon's Story (Sunburst Books) (2000)

Leon's Story (Sunburst Books)

  • 4.3 (11 ratings) ·
  • 120 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 18 Have read

"Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!" -- Nikki Giovanni

I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colored" or "nigger."

Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for black children, and watching a school bus full of white children go past. It's about his being forced to sit in the balcony at the movie theater, hiding all night when the Klansmen came riding, and worse. Much worse.

But it is also the story of a strong family and the love that bound them together. And, finally, it's about working to change an oppressive existence by joining the civil rights movement. Edited from recorded interviews conducted by Susan L. Roth, Leon's story will stay with readers long after they have finished his powerful account.

Leon's Story is the winner of the 1998 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction.

Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List, Carter G. Woodson Book Award (NCSS), American Library Association Notable Children's Books, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, ALA Notable Children's Books, American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, Booklist Editors' Choice, Boston Globe - Horn Book Award, IRA Teachers' Choices

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Language
English
Pages
107

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Leon's Story (Sunburst Books)
September 1, 2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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First Sentence

"My name is Leon Walter Tillage."

Classifications

Library of Congress
F264.F86

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7423789M
Internet Archive
leonsstorysunbur00leon
ISBN 10
0374443300
ISBN 13
9780374443306
OCLC/WorldCat
44966133
Library Thing
573003
Goodreads
396000

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My name is Leon Walter Tillage.
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