Title:
Not my idea : a book about whiteness / written and illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham.
ISBN:
9781948340007
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Dottir Press, [2018]
©2018
Physical Description:
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Awards Note:
School Library Journal, starred review.
Summary:
A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." -- Kirkus Review.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader LG 2.8 0.5 510008
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Decoding demand: 81 (very high) Semantic demand: 90 (very high) Syntactic demand: 69 (high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile.
Audience:
540L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
on1030765865
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