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 0916718158
- ISBN13 9780916718152
- Publish Date 17 July 2008
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of New England
- Format Paperback
- Language English