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I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story

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By (author): Grace Lin Martha Brockenbrough

Illustrated by: Julia Kuo

When American-born, Wong Kim Ark returns home to San Francisco after a visit to China, he's stopped and told he cannot enter: he isn't American. What happens next would forever change the national conversation on who is, and can be, American. Wong Kim Ark takes his case to the Supreme Court and argues that, as stated in the 14th Amendment, any person born in America should be granted American citizenship regardless of their race. Despite protests from xenophobic lawmakers, Wong Kim Ark ultimately prevails. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 420g
  • Dimensions: 284 x 222mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Dec 2021
  • Publisher: Little Brown & Company
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 5-7
  • ISBN13: 9780316426923

About Grace LinMartha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough is the author of many books for young readers. he teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts blogs for the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators and founded National Grammar Day. She has worked as a newspaper reporter a high school teacher and as editor of MSN.com.Grace Lin is the award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of Starry River of the Sky Where the Mountain Meets the Moon The Year of the Dog The Year of the Rat Dumpling Days and Ling & Ting as well as picture books such as A Big Bed for Little Snow and A Big Mooncake for Little Star Grace is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Massachusetts. Her website is www.gracelin.com.Julia Kuo is a Taiwanese-American illustrator who has worked with the New York Times Wall Street Journal and Google. She also illustrated The Sound of Silence. Julia has taught illustration courses at Columbia College Chicago and at her alma mater Washington University in St. Louis. She was the visual arm of Chicago's 2017 March for Science and has had the honor of being an artist-in-residence at Banff Centre for the Arts in 2014 and in 2017.Julia is currently the recipient of a 2019-2021 Gray Center Mellon Collaborative Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

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