When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "Lost Generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision
Author: Pizzoli, Tamara
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1131
Points per Word
0.000442
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This is the story of a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The coauthor is Yolanda Gladden.