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2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to "speak what we see."
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 01/12/2009
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.30h x 7.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780547076362
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 104613 / Wreath for Emmett Till
About the Author
Nelson, Marilyn: - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.Nelson, Marilyn: - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.Lardy, Philippe: - Philippe Tardy is an award winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Boston Globe.
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 01/12/2009
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.30h x 7.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780547076362
Audience: Young Adult
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 104613 / Wreath for Emmett Till
About the Author
Nelson, Marilyn: - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.Nelson, Marilyn: - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.Lardy, Philippe: - Philippe Tardy is an award winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Boston Globe.
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