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Daisy and the Doll (A Vermont Folklife Center Book)
Daisy and the Doll - A Vermont Folklife Center Book Author:Michael Medearis, Angela Shelf Medearis Boldness and a gift for improvising verse enable eight-year-old African American Daisy Turner to triumph over an incident of discrimination in her nineteenth century rural Vermont school. Told in Daisy's voice, the book's themes of identity and self-affirmation offer a powerful lesson to today's youngsters who face similar situations of prejudi... more »ce and stereotyping in twenty-first century classrooms. Suggestions on the concluding page provide creative ways for young readers to develop their own storytelling style in verse. Ages 6-10« less