How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America (Hardcover)
by Clint Smith and Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul
Description
Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads young readers through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the past and those that are not--offering an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
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How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view--whether in places we might drive by on our way to school, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods (like downtown Manhattan) on which the brutal history of the trade in enslaved people has been deeply imprinted.
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Informed by scholarship and brought alive by the story of people living today, this adaptation of Clint Smith's #1 bestselling, award-winning work of nonfiction offers kids a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country, and shows how they can reckon with the past and present to become better stewards of their future.
About the Author
Clint Smith is the bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul is the founder of Red Clay Educators, co-director of the Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy, co-director of the Teach Black History All Year Institute, and executive producer and host of The Black Creators Series. She is a former middle school English teacher and has written several books for educators to support reading and writing instruction.
Product Details
Category: Nonfiction, Young Adult (YA)
Language: English
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0316578509
ISBN-13: 978-0316578509
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Date Published: September 30, 2025
Pages: 336
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