Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South

Contributor(s): Hudson, Wade (Author)

ISBN: 9780593126363

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

$20.99

Pub Date: October 12, 2021

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2021021762

Lexile Code: 0810

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 10 to UP

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 8.30" L x 5.60" W ( 0.79 lbs) 272 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000515723 ( Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South)

Reading level: 5.60

Interest level: UG

Point value: 9.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: "The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--

Review Quotes: "Absorbing, conversational memoir." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Powerful testimony from a children's literature legend." -Kirkus Reviews

"This memoir offers a snapshot of a community enriched by love and chained by systemic racism." -School Library Journal." -School Library Journal

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