Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case /

Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951-

Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case / Loving versus Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell ; artwork by Shadra Strickland. - San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2017] - 260 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

School Library Journal, December 2016 Booklist starred, November 2016 Publisher's Weekly, November 2016 Kirkus Starred, November 2016 Horn Book, January 2017 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2017 Library Media Connection starred, August 2017

Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

HL 720 Lexile. Young Adult Follett School Solutions.



9781452125909

2014045089


Loving, Richard Perry--Trials, litigation, etc.--Juvenile fiction.
Loving, Mildred Jeter--Trials, litigation, etc.--Juvenile fiction.
Loving, Richard Perry--Trials, litigation, etc.--Fiction.
Loving, Mildred Jeter--Trials, litigation, etc.--Fiction.


Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--Virginia--Juvenile fiction.
Interracial marriage--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.


Virginia--Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
Virginia--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Virginia--History--20th century--Fiction.


Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.5.P69 / Lo 2017

[Fic]