Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
In 1944, Sylvia Mendez’s Mexican American family had recently moved. She and... read more
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
Year Published 2014
Word Count 2,321
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 870L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 164558
- Curricular Area
- History
- Spanish
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
- Civil rights
- Mendez, Sylvia
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Unite
- School integration
- Juvenile Nonfiction | School & Education
- Civil rights movements
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic/Latino
- Mendez, Sylvia, 1936---Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudi
- History
- Hispanic Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature
- School integration--United States--Juvenile literature
- Education
- Hispanic Americans
- United States
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
- Childhood and youth
- Race relations
- Hispanic Americans--Education--Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
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Awards & Distinctions 16

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2020
Illustrator Honor, 2015

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2020
Winner, 2015

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2021
Honor, 2015

Américas Award, 1993-2020
Winner, 2015

Tomás Rivera Book Award, 1996-2020
Winner, 2015

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2020
Commended, 2015

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2020
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

ILA Teachers' Choices Reading List, 2015-2020
Selection, 2015

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2020
Selection, 2015

International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2020
First Place Winner, 2015

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Nonfiction Selection, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2014
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