Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 (Dear America Series)

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From Scholastic's best selling, award-winning book series comes a collection of home videos inspired by the diaries or real girls.

Nellie Lee Love moves north with her fmaily to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south. Mamma believes a new start will help Nellie Lee's sister Erma Jean, who stopped speaking after a mysterious but horrifying event only she witnessed. Though life in this northern city, is exciting, Nellie Lee sees that racism knows no boundaries. When a group of boys threaten Nellie Lee, Erma Jean finds her voice just in time to fend them off. Through the love of their family, both sisters learn ...

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From Scholastic's best selling, award-winning book series comes a collection of home videos inspired by the diaries or real girls.

Nellie Lee Love moves north with her fmaily to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south. Mamma believes a new start will help Nellie Lee's sister Erma Jean, who stopped speaking after a mysterious but horrifying event only she witnessed. Though life in this northern city, is exciting, Nellie Lee sees that racism knows no boundaries. When a group of boys threaten Nellie Lee, Erma Jean finds her voice just in time to fend them off. Through the love of their family, both sisters learn that they possess the strenght to triumph.

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Issues of race, class, and prejudice on both a personal and institutional level are explored through the journal entries of a young African-American girl, eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love, in this newest addition to the ever popular "Dear America" series. The novel begins in 1919 in a small Tennessee town where the Loves have lived for several generations. After Nellie's uncle dies, the Loves move to Chicago; there, Nellie begins to see the world through a new set of eyes. Up North, Nellie learns that life is much different in the big city. In addition to the hustle and bustle of Chicago, Nellie witnesses race riots and expressions of intolerance within her own African-American community. Saddened, Nellie longs to return to her native South, until she remembers that life down home is filled with the same kind of hate--except that lynchings are the order of the day. Complete with a rich resource of historical data about life for African-Americans in the early twentieth century, this novel shows that "hurt and hate" exist no matter where one lives. Genre: Historical Fiction/Race. 2000, Scholastic, Ages 9 to 12, $10.95. Reviewer: Michele L. Gable
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On Christmas Day in 1915, Nellie Lee Love and her sister Erma Jean are given diaries by their mother. Nellie puts hers away until she begins with New Year's Day, 1919, recording her thoughts and the events involving her family and friends during a year of change. The Great War is over, but a different war is brewing in the United States. As black soldiers return from battle overseas, they are faced with discrimination and the fear of lynching in their hometowns. The violence of racism hits home for the Love family, becoming too brutal to ignore. Nellie's father moves his family from rural Tennessee to Chicago in search of opportunity. Although life is better in Chicago in some ways—the Loves no longer have to hide their NAACP membership or their reading of the works of W. E. B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey—it is also difficult. Mr. Love's application for a business loan is rejected several times, and the family experiences riots and endures prejudice within their own race. Through courage, perseverance, and family unity, however, the Loves eventually find hope and triumph and become comfortable in their new community. The diary format of the Dear America series makes for readable historical fiction that will appeal to history students and reluctant readers alike. Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winner McKissack has written a story about a family whose strength and solidarity will touch readers, regardless of their cultural or ethnic backgrounds. The author's notes and illustrations additionally serve as an excellent introduction not only to the civil rights movement but also to the lives and works of prominent African Americans. This is the author's second book in theseries, following A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl (Scholastic, 1997). Illus. Biblio. VOYA CODES: 5Q 4P M J (Hard to imagine it being any better written; Broad general YA appeal; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2000, Scholastic, 222p, $10.95. Ages 12 to 15. Reviewer: Elizabeth Wetherson

SOURCE: VOYA, October 2000 (Vol. 23, No. 4)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780590511599
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/1/2000
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 224
  • Age range: 9 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 680L (what's this?)
  • Series: Dear America Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.61 (w) x 7.77 (h) x 0.79 (d)
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 24, 2008

    Awesome.

    this book was sooooo good and i loved it. it was awesome and seemed like Nellie Lee Love was a real person.!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 10, 2008

    I'm Back with a new review{Joshua Basaldua}

    I loved to see how everything changes for the family, but in the end they still stay together. It was an eye-opener to all the suffering that African-American people went through even long after slavery was ablolished, and to see it all through a young girl's eyes had fought everything she had been through. Knowing this event happened, it was a hard and rude to them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2008

    Great Book

    I never liked Dear America until I read this book. I recomend this to people who love to read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2008

    Geat!

    This was such a good book! I loved to see how everything changes for the family, but in the end they still stay together. It was an eye-opener to all the suffering that African-American people went through even long after slavery was ablolished, and to see it all through a young girl's eyes made it good too. No matter how old you are you should read this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 8, 2006

    AWESOME!

    This book was totally awesome becasuse I am SO much like Nellie! It is also kind of sad too, but over all a VERY GOOD DEAR AMERICA BOOK!!! Patricia McKissak is a great author and did a wonderful job with this one. Definatly recommened! READ IT!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 8, 2005

    The whole book

    The book is absolutley awesome. I loved every bit of it from start to finish its great. Keep up the good work. Love always, the one who loves your writting. Jennifer

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2004

    Best book ever

    this book was an amazing book and inspired me to research more about black history. Nellie is an amazing girl and survives all the bands and differences surrounding her. It is a must read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 31, 2004

    color me dark

    the book was ver very very very good i give it 5 stars

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 8, 2004

    WOW!!!!!!!!1

    This book is the best. i woul like more books about the great migration north.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 31, 2003

    Great! Very Interesting! I give the Author 100% FAME! Great Book

    Book was a great book! Loved it. Recomended to teachers!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 23, 2003

    THIS BOOK WAS EXCELLENT

    IT TALKS ABOUT ALL THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED DURING TIME OF THE LYNCHING AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS. NELLIE LEE LOVE WAS A VERY BRAVE GIRL.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 2, 2003

    BEST BOOK!!

    This book was great!!! I loved it, it told you how she felt and every little thing about what it was like to live in that kind of world. I would recommend this book to anyone willing to listen. All my friends have read it so i'm speakin for all of us!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2002

    This book was really good!

    I liked being able to read about what her life was like, and comparing what my life is like with what her's was like. I learned about being treated different because of your skin color, and how that is bad. Nellie died the year I was born, and it's hard to believe that people experienced these things not that long ago.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2002

    A must read

    This book is so cool. I did a report on it and it wasn't even required. I love reading books. It's touching and sad.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 15, 2002

    I will never forget

    This book is based on cruelness and bravery and courage.Nellie Lee's uncle dies,and is a mystery.Her sister became dum and could never again speak,but...Why am I telling the story????Buy it,I command you!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 22, 2001

    ' The Great Black Girls Living Down South'

    This book is more than outstanding. I would give this book ten stars and more if I only could. This book tells how black people were mistreated in the South and mostly everywhere they went. When they moved to the North they had better oppurtunities. They could actually have a life. I think this is not only a book for kids, but it is also a book for all people of all color. That is how I rate this book!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 12, 2001

    Great Book

    I thought this book was really, really good, and I recomend it. It's very touching and descriptive.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2000

    SUCH A GREAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    I'm a 8th grader that geos to LMS in NJ. My teacher wanted us to do a report about book thats like a dairy. At first I thought it was going to be a boring book. But when I started reading the book I thought it was so good. I will be buying this book for my cousin to read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2000

    'Color Me Dark'WONDERFUL!!!!!!

    im an 8th grader at wedgewoodmiddle.im doing a book report on the 'Red Summer'.i loved this book it is a great book.i need more information on the subject.but i couldn't put this book down.i strongly recommend this book.if you have any information on the 'Red Summer' please tell me where i can find it and get some. thank you. email me.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2000

    i loved it

    i loved it and i am still reading i am on the part when the braxton brothets came up to them in chicago.

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