num_pages: 112
description: Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each book in the series tells the story behind a different ‘scrap of time; together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.
language: English
title: Abby Takes a Stand
titlecomplete: Abby Takes a Stand (Scraps of Time, #1)
genres: Juvenile, African American, Historical, Childrens, Chapter Books, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 234
places: Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee
series: Scraps of Time
publisher: The Viking Press, Inc.