A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy

48 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction poetry young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acq...

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Moods

emotional 92%
sad 92%
reflective 69%
challenging 46%
dark 46%
informative 30%
inspiring 23%
tense 15%
hopeful 7%

Pace

medium 50%
fast 25%
slow 25%

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