When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "Lost Generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision Marilyn Singer Kara Bufano

Kara Bufano

Everything Lefty does makes Cranky feel extra cranky

That means she doesn’t let them know how much she loves the library

bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change

illustrated endpapers

When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's "Lost Generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision Marilyn Singer Kara BufanoA 2023 Jane Addams Childrens Book Award Finalist An awe inspiring autobiographical picture book about a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward