Pinkney, Andrea Davis.

With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson / Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson Andrea Davis Pinkney. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic, 2011. - 324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. - Dear America . - Dear America book. .

"Hadley, Virginia, 1954"--Cover.

School Library Journal, September 2011 Booklist, September 2011 Kirkus Review, September 2011

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.

5.1. 5-8 Follett Library Resources.



0545297052

2011001363


School integration--Fiction.
School stories.
Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family life--Virginia--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Virginia--History--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.P6333 / Wi 2011

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