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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Ward, Frederick, 1937-     Subjects     Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.     Boys, Black -- Fiction.     Oppositional defiant disorder in children -- Fiction.     Nova Scotia -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ward, Frederick, 1937-       by title:      A room full of ballo...       by call number:      819.354 W258r     Search the Web     Ward, Frederick, 1937-     Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.     Boys, Black -- Fiction.     Oppositional defiant disorder in children -- Fiction.     Nova Scotia -- Fiction.       MARC Display

A room full of balloons / Frederick Ward ; with paintings by Jim Shirley. by Ward, Frederick, 1937- Tundra Books, c1981. Call #: 819.354 W258r Subjects Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.   Boys, Black -- Fiction.   Oppositional defiant disorder in children -- Fiction.   Nova Scotia -- Fiction. ISBN:  0887761283 Description:  154 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm. Summary:  "A ROOM FULL OF BALLOONS is based on a true incident that Fred Ward heard of in his exploration of the black experience in Nova Scotia. A black boy is expelled from shcool for refusing to read LITTLE BLACK SAMBO aloud in class. He is sent to a school for retarded children, and when he continues his defiance - this time for refusing to knit. He is locked in the school closet each day." --Book jacket [Author and illustrator are African-American immigrants to Nova Scotia, Canada] Genre:  Canadian fiction. Black fiction. Other authors:  Shirley, Jim. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 819.354 W258r Non-circulating Closed Stacks Add Copy to MyList

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