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Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
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Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys Paperback - 2005

by Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald

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All Virgie wants to do is go to school with her five older brothers, who think she's too small and that girls don't need an education. Based on the lives of the author's ancestors, this story is captured in colorful artwork by Coretta Scott King honoree E.B. Lewis.

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Details

  • Title Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
  • Author Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Aladdin Paperbacks
  • Date 2005-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00OFHY_ns
  • ISBN 9780689877933 / 0689877935
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 7.12 x 0.11 in (20.98 x 18.08 x 0.28 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 520
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex role, Schools
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97049406
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

First line

Virgie was always begging to go to school with us boys.

From the jacket flap

All Virgie wants is to go to school with her brothers George, Will, Nelson, Val, and C. C. But they keep saying she's too little for the long, seven-mile walk, and that girls don't need school.

Well, Virgie doesn't agree, and she's not gonna let anything stand in her way.

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Citations

  • Ingram Children's Advance, 01/01/2005, Page 45
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/03/2005, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 01/03/2005, Page 58

About the author

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard grew up hearing stories of her grandfather's childhood from her mother and later visited Jonesborough, Tennessee, a town seven miles from where her grandfather grew up. There, she drew inspiration for stories of her own.

E.B. Lewis is the award-winning illustrator of such books as Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, which was a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, and This Little Light of Mine. He received the Caldecott Honor for Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes. E.B. Lewis lives in New Jersey, and you can visit him online at EBLewis.com.