Betty before X

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Label

Betty before X

Statement of responsibility

by Ilyasah Shabazz ; with Renée Watson

Creator

• true Unknown Label
• Shabazz, Ilyasah,

Contributor

• Watson, Renée,
• trueWatson, Renee

Author

• Watson, Renée,
• Shabazz, Ilyasah,

Subject

• Shabazz, Betty -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction
• trueBlended families
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueBiographical fiction
• trueDetroit, Michigan
• Family life -- Michigan | Detroit -- Fiction
• Stepfamilies -- Fiction
• trueRacism
• Racism -- Fiction
• trueAfrican American fiction
• Detroit (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• trueAfrican American girls
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Civil rights movements -- Fiction
• trueCivil Rights Movement
• true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
• Shabazz, Betty -- Fiction
• trueShabazz, Betty, 1936-1997
• trueAfrican Americans

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueAfrican American fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueBiographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

810L

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.1.S47

LC item number

Bet 2019

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810

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 6

Target audience

pre adolescent