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Author Miller, Pat Zietlow, author.

Title The quickest kid in Clarksville / by Pat Zietlow Miller ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.

Publication Info. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2016]
©2016
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1674859~S1
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 Nichols Juvenile Easy Fiction  E MIL    AVAILABLE
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Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, photograph ; 29 cm
Note Includes an Author's note with a photograph and biographical information about African American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph.
Summary Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
Subject Rudolph, Wilma, 1940-1994 -- Juvenile fiction.
African American girls -- Tennessee -- Clarksville -- Juvenile fiction.
Parades -- Tennessee -- Clarksville -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Segregation -- Tennessee -- Clarksville -- Juvenile fiction.
Role models -- Juvenile fiction.
Parades -- Juvenile fiction.
Segregation -- Juvenile fiction.
Running -- Juvenile fiction.
Clarksville (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Added Author Morrison, Frank, 1971- illustrator.
ISBN 9781452129365 (lib. bdg.)
1452129363 (lib. bdg.)
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