Dear America Series:
With the Might of Angels
With the Might of Angels
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Scholastic, 2011
A brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement, in the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new school and to leave the comfort of all that is familiar to face great uncertainty in the school year ahead. But the backlash against Dawnie's attendance of an all-white school is more than she's prepared for. When her father loses his job as a result, and her little brother is constantly bullied, Dawnie has to wonder if it's worth it. Suggested for grades 6-8.
Find this series in the fiction section at call number F DEA.
