Tonatiuh, Duncan. <br/><br/>
Separate is never equal :  Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation / 
 Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation  Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation 
Duncan Tonatiuh. 
 - 40 pages :  illustrations (chiefly color) ;  29 cm. 
 - Lessons for Racial Equity Curriculum title .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 39) and index. 
<br/><br/> School Library Journal starred, May 2014.  Publisher's Weekly, March 2014.  Booklist, May 2014.  Kirkus Starred, June 2014.  Horn Book, October 2014.  Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2014. 
<br/><br/> Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California. 
<br/><br/> 4.7  K-3  AD870L  Lexile.  T  Fountas. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781419710544 9781489851819 1419710540 148985181X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013032089 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- --Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.<br/>Mendez, Sylvia, 1936- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>School integration--United States--Juvenile literature.<br/>Hispanic Americans--Education--Juvenile literature.<br/>Hispanic Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.<br/>Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century--Juvenile literature.<br/>School integration.<br/>Hispanic Americans--Education.<br/>Hispanic Americans--Civil rights.<br/>Civil rights movements.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Nonfiction picture books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC214.2  / .T66 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.2 TON