Boldness and a gift for improvising verse enable eight-year-old African American Daisy Turner to triumph over an incident of discrimination in her nineteenth century rural Vermont school. Told in Daisy's voice, the book's themes of identity and self-affirmation offer a powerful lesson to today's youngsters who face similar situations of prejudice and stereotyping in twenty-first century classrooms. Suggestions on the concluding page provide creative ways for young readers to develop their own storytelling style in verse. Ages 6-10.
- ISBN10 0916718239
- ISBN13 9780916718237
- Publish Date 4 February 2005
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vermont Folklife Center
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English