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Girls survive : Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story  Cover Image Book Book

Girls survive : Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Markia Jenai.

Smith, Nikki Shannon, 1971- (author.). Jenai, Markia, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781663990563
  • ISBN: 1663990565
  • ISBN: 9781666329445
  • ISBN: 1666329444
  • Physical Description: 103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone [2022]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
580L Lexile
Decoding demand: 83 (very high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.9 2 515221.
Subject: African American families > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Juvenile fiction.
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 > Juvenile fiction.
Massacres > Oklahoma > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
African American neighborhoods > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Tulsa (Okla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma.
Tulsa (Okla.)
Genre: Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at De Soto.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
De Soto Public Library JF GIRLS Survive (Text) 33858000016928 Juvenile Fiction Available -


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