Leon's Story by Tillage, Leon Walter

Recommended for Grades 4 and 5

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• Title: Leon's Story
• Author: Tillage, Leon Walter
• ISBN: 0374443300
• ISBN 13: 978-0374443306

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"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)

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