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    Sidewalk Story

    Author Sharon Bell Mathis
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    $4.99 US
    Penguin Young Readers | Puffin Books
    5.03"W x 7.7"H x 0.19"D   | 2 oz | 168 per carton
    On sale Oct 07, 1986 | 64 Pages | 9780140321654
    Age 10 and up | Grade 5 & Up
    Reading Level: Lexile 620L | Fountas & Pinnell N
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    Council on Interracial Books for Children award winner

    From the award-winning author of The Hundred Penny Box comes a sweet story about how one girl can make a difference. 

    Lilly Etta didn't know the men, but she knew those yellow chairs. They were Tanya's, and they were being taken out of her building. Tanya was being put out - Tanya, her mother, her six brothers and sisters. Their things would be piled on the sidewalk and left there to be had for the taking. It didn't matter if nobody else in the city cared; Lilly Etta did. She knew what friendship was, and she wasn't going to let her friend be thrown out without a fight.
     
    “An affecting, sensitive story.”—Booklist
    Sharon Bell Mathis has written many books for children and young adults and received many accolades in her career. Her book Ray Charles, a nonfiction biography of Ray Charles, received the Coretta Scott King Award. The Hundred Penny Box received a Newbery Honor Award and is a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and also a American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and Teacup Full of Roses was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. View titles by Sharon Bell Mathis

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    Council on Interracial Books for Children award winner

    From the award-winning author of The Hundred Penny Box comes a sweet story about how one girl can make a difference. 

    Lilly Etta didn't know the men, but she knew those yellow chairs. They were Tanya's, and they were being taken out of her building. Tanya was being put out - Tanya, her mother, her six brothers and sisters. Their things would be piled on the sidewalk and left there to be had for the taking. It didn't matter if nobody else in the city cared; Lilly Etta did. She knew what friendship was, and she wasn't going to let her friend be thrown out without a fight.
     
    “An affecting, sensitive story.”—Booklist

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    Sharon Bell Mathis has written many books for children and young adults and received many accolades in her career. Her book Ray Charles, a nonfiction biography of Ray Charles, received the Coretta Scott King Award. The Hundred Penny Box received a Newbery Honor Award and is a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and also a American Library Association Notable Children's Book, and Teacup Full of Roses was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year. View titles by Sharon Bell Mathis

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