Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice
by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, and Jennifer Zivoin
Now A Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company Original World Premiere Production
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Picture Book
Year Published 2018
Word Count 986
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 540L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 511216, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Police shootings--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Prejudices
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
- Prejudices--Fiction
- Police shootings
- Juvenile Fiction | Law & Crime
- Racism--Fiction
- Picture books
- Racism
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
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About the Authors 7
Author Interviews 5
Interview with Marianne Celano
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Interview with Marietta Collins
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Interview with Ann Hazzard
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Interview with Marianne Celano
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Interview with Ann Hazzard
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Readings 1
Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Leslie Green
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Awards & Distinctions 2
ILA Children’s Choices Reading List, 2015-2020
Selection, 2019
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2022
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2019
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