A Sweet Smell of Roses
Contributors: Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780689832529
Subjects: Historical - United States - 20th Century; Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism; Civil rights movements; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; People & Places - United States - African-American; Children: Grades 1-2; Children: Grades 3-4; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century; Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks; African Americans
First sentence: After a night of soft rain there is a sweet smell of roses as my sister, Minnie, and I slip past Mama's door and out of the house down Charlotte Street.