01430cam a2200289 4500 390696028 TxAuBib 20190830120000.0 190827s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781681198521 1681198525 TxAuBib Boyce, Jo Ann Allen. This promise of change : one girl's story in the fight for school equality / Jo Ann Allen Boyce. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 310 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. In 1956, a year before the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, 14 year old Jo Ann Allen made history when she and 11 other black students in Clinton, Tennessee integrated a public high school. This nonfiction in verse, the first children s book about a forgotten moment in history, is based on Jo Ann s experience. 678 Childrens Plus, Inc. 1000 Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR 6.3 4.0 199651. 20190903. Boyce, Jo Ann Allen Juvenile literature. African American students Tennessee Juvenile literature. African American teenage girls Tennessee Juvenile literature. School integration Tennessee Juvenile literature. Clinton (Tenn.) Race relations Juvenile literature.