After a long bus ride into town with his grandmother on a scorching hot day, Michael runs to the water fountain to quench his thirst. But instead of refreshing him, the water tastes gritty and dirty. Dismayed, Michael begins to imagine that the water from the nearby “white” fountain is exactly the kind of water he would like to taste. . . . Set in 1962 in the segregation-era South at the dawn of the civil rights movement, this moving and inspirational story, based on a real-life childhood experience of author Michael S. Bandy, shows how one epiphany opens up a whole world of possibilities.---from the publisher
40 pages 978-0763679453 Ages 5-9
Keywords: Civil Rights, African American and Black Stories, grandmothers, boys and men, prejudice and racism, segregation, African American author, books that make a difference, white privilege, water, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old, Social Studies Curriculum
Read alikes: Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds; Freedom on the Menu The Greensboro Sit Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford; Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
