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Murder in Mississippi

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

It was the Freedom Summer of 1964. Civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were driving through rural Mississippi. When a police cruiser flashed its lights behind them, they hesitated. Were these law-abiding officers or members of the Ku Klux Klan? Should they pull over or try to outrun their pursuers? The last day in the lives of these courageous young men is relived in this gripping story.

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 3
Copyright 2010
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Kar-Ben Publishing ®
Language English
Number of Pages 40
Publication Date 2010-01-01
Text Type Fiction—Historical
BISACS JUV016150
Dewey 323.092
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 6.375 x 9.25
ATOS Reading Level 5.6
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 135427
Accelerated Reader® Points 0.5
Features Original artwork and Reviewed

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Reviewed on 1 April 2010

“In this short, gripping book, the authors juxtapose chapters that are fictional, centering on this tense decision, with chapters that explain the background of the segregated South and the civil-rights movement. The photo-realist style of the full-color illustrations ratchets up the tension.”
—Booklist