Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780689800764)

This luminous and energetic picture book follows a young boy who takes his younger sister on her first trip to school in the Reconstruction-era South.

"Papa, Mama, can I go too?"

Virgie was always begging to go to school with us boys. My brothers had doubts. School was seven miles away--a long way from Mama. Virgie was scarcely big as a field mouse. How could she make the trip? And girls didn't really need school.

But I got to thinking: Virgie was free like we were. Free to learn. And didn't girls need to know how to write and add, too? Mama and Papa thought so. And one summer, they decided to do something about it. That was the year Virgie came to school with us boys. And she sure showed us

Author: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
ISBN-10: 0689800762
ISBN-13: 9780689800764
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2000
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 10.85h x 8.76w x 0.37d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32905 / Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys

Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Award: Carolyn W. Field Award - Winner
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/1999 pg. 525
Kirkus Review - Children 12/01/1999 pg. 1886
Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 774
Publishers Weekly 12/20/1999 pg. 80
Booklist 02/15/2000 pg. 1109
School Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 208
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2000 pg. 75
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 270 - Recommended, Satisfactory
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/2001 pg. 1374
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2000 pg. 270 - Recommended, Satisfactory