Strange Fruit by Gary Golio, Charlotte Riley-Webb

40 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography music emotional slow-paced
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This picture book for older readers tells the story of how the racism protest song "Strange Fruit" came into being in 1939. This is also the story of two outsiders - Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son...

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