Richard Wright and the library card
By: by William Miller ; illustrated by Gregory Christie.
Contributors: Christie, Gregory, 1971- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Juvenile fiction; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Fiction; African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Books and reading -- Fiction; Libraries -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.