Richard Wright and the Library Card
- ISBN-10
- 060617379X
- ISBN-13
- 9780606173797
- Series
- Richard Wright and the Library Card
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-09-01
- Publisher
- Turtleback
- Author
- William Miller
Description
Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.
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