Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Celebrations - Other Jax finds himself caught up

Jax finds himself caught up in a secret plan involving the Guardian of Palmara’s mysterious twin brother

A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history

or the air you breathe end up

will see her prospects and her reputation soar

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Celebrations - Other Jax finds himself caught upIt was February 1, 1960. They didn't need menus. Their order was simple. A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side. This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement. Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful prose to tell the story