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Coleman, Evelyn

Freedom Train

150 pp. | McElderry | January, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-689-84716-5 $15.99
(4) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Clyde lives on the poor-white side of the tracks in 1947 segregated Atlanta. His brother is a guard for the Freedom Train, carrying the Declaration of Independence around the country. After an African American boy helps save him from bullies, he begins to question the racial myths he's been taught. The message is didactically related, but the story is engaging.
Reviewer: Jack Forman

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