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.