{"product_id":"a-wreath-for-emmett-till-9780547076362","title":"A Wreath for Emmett Till","description":"\u003cb\u003e2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to \"speak what we see.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Houghton Mifflin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780547076362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 8.00w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e104613 \/ Wreath for Emmett Till\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.3 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Marilyn Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36638683693212,"sku":"9780547076362","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9d169f4b-2840-4b07-8313-6d471c9aa613.jpg?v=1603847924","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-wreath-for-emmett-till-9780547076362","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}