Book Title: RUBY LEE & ME
Author: Shannon Hitchcock
Category: Children's
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC PRESS
Description:
When a segregated North Carolina town gets its first black teacher, two girls–one black, one white–come face-to-face with how prejudice affects their friendship.
Award-winning
Shannon Hitchcock
www.twitter.com/shanonhitchcock
http://shannonhitchcockwriter.blogspot.com
Author of the January 5, 2016 Middle Grade historical for ages 8 - 12
RUBY LEE & ME
http://www.jodycasella.com/2016/01/the-ruby-lee-me-blog-tour-interview.html
http://scholastic.asia/en/catalog/spring-catalog-2016
Featured in Scholastic’s Mother Daughter Book Club: http://www.scholastic.com/motherdaughterbookclub/
Check out the link for discussion questions, a recipe for peach cobbler, and a drawing to win ten copies!
Featured on CBC’s homepage/Hot Off the Press Reading List:
http://www.cbcbooks.org/hot-off-the-press/
New and Forthcoming African-American Titles for Young Readers, 2015-2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Nm09jdPIA
Andrea Pinkney’s introduction starting @ 5:19