Ron's Big Mission
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Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron’s obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage–it is a young man’s first courageous mission. Here is an inspiring story, based on Ron McNair’s life, of how a little boy, future scientist, and Challenger astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.
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Don Tate is the author and illustrator of Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton (Peachtree), for which he received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, and Strong as Sandow. He received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw (Lee & Low). He is the illustrator of several picture books including The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans), and The Cart That Carried Martin. Don lives in Austin, Texas
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780525478492
- Publication Date
- February 1, 2009
- Publisher
- Dutton Books for Young Readers
- Original Publication Date
- February 1, 2009
- Page Count
- 32
- Words Per Page
- 29
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 6 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2007050563
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 191897900
- Lexile® Level
- 540L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~N
- ATOS® Book Level
- 2.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 127001
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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