A Sweet Smell of Roses

Title: A Sweet Smell of Roses
Author:  Angela Johnson

Illustrator: Eric Velasquez
Type: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 2nd-6th
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Date of Publication: 2005
ISBN: 978-0689832529

Synopsis: Two girls slip out of their house to join a Civil Rights march with Dr. King.  When it is over, they hurry home and tell their mother all about what happened.

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Possible Teaching Points: 1) Civil Rights, 2) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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