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Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by Me!
By Walvoord, Linda & Velasquez, Eric
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76145-171-6
- Publisher
- New York : Marshall Cavendish, c2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2004
Gr 3-5 This chapter book is based on the life of Rosetta Douglass, daughter of orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It's Rosetta's first day of school at Miss Tracy's exclusively white Female Seminary in Rochester, NY. Although the students are excited to have the nine-year-old in their class, Miss Tracy does not share their opinion and isolates the girl from her peers. Rosetta has to do her lessons, eat lunch, and play at recess alone. She endures this treatment for two weeks, until her father confronts the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
