| View Larger Image | Leon's Story (Sunburst Books) | Paperbackby Leon Walter Tillage (Author), Susan L. Roth (Illustrator)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | | Page Count: | 112 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2000 | | Sales Rank: | 445,344th |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780374443306
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
"In this riveting autobiography, Baltimore janitor Leon Walter Tillage reflects on his life with all the vitality of a storyteller gathering his audience around him. He recalls his childhood as an African American sharecroppers son in 1940s North Carolina...a time, only a few short decades back, when Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled the South...Roth's dramatic black-and-white collages pay homage to the power of Leon's story, a tale that does more in its gentle way to expose the horrors of racism than most works of fiction ever could." (Starred, Publishers Weekly) |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)
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great book  4 Stars
October 05, 2006
This book is a very well-put autobiography, but my only comlaint is that their grammer wasn't right. This book tells you about how is was between the whites & the "coloreds" back then: a very tragic life.
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Leon's Tragedy  5 Stars
April 23, 2004
Leon's Story is an awesome book. I think it was the best book I have ever read in the segregation times. It is about this boy named Leon,he and his family are poor. His mom has to for white people. I think that is awful. The most interesting part was when they were marching for freedom. They didn't give up they just kept going and fighting. They had to go through a lot to do all that. This is an awesome book I recommend it to everybody.
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My review 4 Stars
April 23, 2004
Leon's story is about a poor 10 year old black boy growing up in the early 1900's. Leon suffers a lot of tragedy in his life, such as his dad being killed by drunk Klansmen. I felt that because of this being a biography I felt that is was very special to me.
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an cool book reviwe 5 Stars
March 25, 2004
When Leon was young he lived on a shar cropers land and had to work for the land oner. They did not have much in common with the white peoplek. But there was only two things that brought white and black family's together and that was Christmas and the death of a family member. When they came back home white kids on the bus would haller at them and throw stuff at them when they went by. I thought it was sad when the perosn he worked for went and got the oner of a store and brought out a dog to chase him. I felt proud of him when he joind the marches in there town. But also sad because of what the white people did to them. I am glad that the world today is knot like that today.
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Leon's Tragedy 4 Stars
March 22, 2004
I think Leon's Story is an awesome book! It is about this boy that lives in this horrible world. It is a very sad book, you could cry some and you can laugh some. The saddest part was when Leon's dad got ran over. I think it was real strong of Leon and his family to march to get freedom. I recommend this book to anyone that can read because I think that everyone should read this book and know what they had to go through back in those days. Once again it is a very awesome book!
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