When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision

by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli, Yolanda Gladden, Tamara Pizzoli

A 2023 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Finalist An awe-inspiring autobiographical picture book about a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063011166
• ISBN13: 9780063011168
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3