Mississippi bridge

Resource Information

The work Mississippi bridge represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Mississippi bridge

Statement of responsibility

Mildred D. Taylor; pictures by Max Ginsburg

Creator

• Taylor, Mildred D

Contributor

• Ginsburg, Max

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor) -- Juvenile fiction
• Prejudices -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

810

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• MG
• 3-5

LC call number

PZ7.T21723

LC item number

Mi 1990

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

• 4.2
• 5.9

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

juvenile