Abby Takes a Stand

By: Patricia C. McKissack

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milk shake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young listeners see what it was like to live through those days, and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each audiobook in this series tells the story behind a different "scrap of time"; together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.

©2005 Patricia C. McKissak (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Amazing

The book “Abby Takes a Stand” by Patricia C. McKissack is an incredible book that really makes you believe you are in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1960’s during segregation. If you love historical fiction like me then this book is going to become one of your favorite’s.

Historical fiction at it's best!

This is an excellent story to teach, almost any age group, about the Civil Rights Movement, prejudice, racism, discrimination and the many ways to nonviolently protest. It also tells the tale of family, friendship, and bravery.