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Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys
Contributor(s): Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Author), Lewis, E. B. (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0756950880 ISBN-13: 9780756950880
Publisher: Perfection Learning

OUR PRICE: $15.98

Binding Type: Prebound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2005
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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american

Dewey: FIC

Age Level: 5-8

Grade Level: Kindergarten-3

Lexile Measure: 190(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.33" H x 8.86" W x 10.34" L (0.72 lbs) 32 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - South
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine

Features: Ikids, Illustrated

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 32905
Reading Level: 2.5 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

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Publisher Description:
Virgie was always begging to go to school with us boys.

""Papa, Mama, can I go too?""

My brothers had doubts. School was seven miles away -- a long way from Mama. Virgie was scarcely big as a field mouse. How could she make the trip? And girls didn't really need school. But I got to thinking: Virgie was free like we were. Free to learn. And didn't girls need to know how to write and add too? Mama and Papa thought so. And one summer, they decided to do something about it.

That was the year Virgie came to school with us boys. And she sure showed us

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