New Shoes
by Susan Meyer
List Price: $16.95Holiday House (Jan 30, 2015)
Hardcover, 40 pages
Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
Description of New Shoes by Susan Meyer
Set in the South during the time of segregation, this lushly illustrated picture book brings the civil rights era to life for contemporary readers as two young girls find an inventive way to foil Jim Crow laws. When her brother’s hand-me-down shoes don’t fit, it is time for Ella Mae to get new ones. She is ecstatic, but when she and her mother arrive at Mr. Johnson’s shoe store, her happiness quickly turns to dejection. Ella Mae is unable to try on the shoes because of her skin color. Determined to fight back, Ella Mae and her friend Charlotte work tirelessly to collect and restore old shoes, wiping, washing, and polishing them to perfection. The girls then have their very own shoe sale, giving the other African American members of their community a place to buy shoes where they can be treated fairly and ""try on all the shoes they want.""

- ISBN: 9780823425280
- Imprint: Holiday House
- Publisher: Holiday House
- Parent Company: Holiday House, Inc.
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- JUVENILE FICTION / African American & Black
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