Hands Up! Juvenile Fiction Disability Sports & Recreation - Soccer Social Themes - Friendship Featuring contact sheets

Featuring contact sheets

Born a year after Wright’s death and raised in a wealthy San Diego neighborhood

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kind and accepting

Age Range:  8 - 15

Hands Up! Juvenile Fiction Disability Sports & Recreation - Soccer Social Themes - Friendship Featuring contact sheetsThis triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday life hands up for a hug, hands up in class, hands up for a high five before culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest march. A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes