Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.
year: 2008, 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: race relations, juvenile fiction, freedom train, schools, bullies, families, georgia, atlanta (ga.), juvenile fiction, georgia, history, 20th century, fiction, family life, fiction, fictino, fiction
Editions
Coleman, Evelyn
Margaret K. McElderry Books (2008)
Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.
Schools: 5
Coleman, Evelyn
Margaret K. McElderry (2012)
Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.
Schools: 2