With the Might of Angels (26 page)

While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Dawnie Rae Johnson is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction.

Copyright © 2011 by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson
/ Andrea Davis Pinkney. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Dear America)
Summary: In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
ISBN 978-0-545-29705-9
[1. School integration—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.
3. Race relations—Fiction. 4. African Americans—Fiction. 5. Family life—Virginia—Fiction. 6. Diaries—
Fiction. 7. Virginia—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P6333Wi 2011
[Fic]—dc22

2011001363

First edition, September 2011

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