Richard Wright and the library card /
Making Meaning : Grade 5 Unit 6
by William Miller ; illustrated by Gregory Christie.
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Center for the Collaborative Classroom : Making Meaning ; Grade 5 Unit 6 .
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Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, "Black Boy", in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.