oAuthor: Woodson, Jacqueline

oIllustrator: Lewis, E. B.

oPublication date: March 2000

oGenre/ Text Type: Picture Book

oTeaching Lesson: Segregation.

oInterest Level: Pre-K – 12th grade

oText Level: Lexile 300

oBrief teaser: Clover, an African-American girl develops a friendship with Annie, a white girl during an unlikely time in history. Although they are separated by a fence, they seem to disregard their differences and become friends.

oFocus concept/ strategy: Character development and symbolism. At first, Clover and her friends do not want to play with Annie. But by the end of the book, they are happily playing together. Explain that the fence symbolizes segregation and that it’s just the way things have always been.

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