With the might of angels : a dear America novel /
Andrea Davis Pinkney.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Scholastic Inc., 2019, c2011.
- 324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
- Dear America .
- Dear America. .
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
9781338530957 (pbk.)
2011001363
School integration--Fiction. Schools--Fiction. Race relations--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction. Families--Virginia--Fiction. Diaries--Fiction.