# Saving Savannah - Hardcover

by **Tonya Bolden** (Author)

**From acclaimed author Tonya Bolden comes the story of a teen girl becoming a woman on her own terms against the backdrop of widespread social change in the early 1900s.**

Savannah Riddle is lucky. As a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C., she attends one of the most rigorous public schools in the nation--black or white--and has her pick among the young men in her set. But lately the structure of her society--the fancy parties, the Sunday teas, the pretentious men, and shallow young women--has started to suffocate her.

Then Savannah meets Lloyd, a young West Indian man from the working class who opens Savannah's eyes to how the other half lives. Inspired to fight for change, Savannah starts attending suffragist lectures and socialist meetings, finding herself drawn more and more to Lloyd's world.

Set against the backdrop of the press for women's rights, the Red Summer, and anarchist bombings, _Saving Savannah_ is the story of a girl and the risks she must take to be the change in a world on the brink of dramatic transformation.

### Author Biography

**Tonya Bolden** is a critically acclaimed award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include _Inventing Victoria_, _Crossing Ebenezer Creek_, which received five starred reviews; _Finding Family,_ which received two starred reviews and was a _Kirkus Reviews_ and _Bank Street_ Best Children's Book of the Year; _Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl_, a Coretta Scott King honor book and James Madison Book Award winner; _MLK: Journey of a King_, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; _Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty_, an ALSC Notable Children's Book, CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and winner of the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award. Tonya also received the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master's degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in New York City.  
www.tonyaboldenbooks.com

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.5 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** January 14, 2020

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Saving Savannah

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.1

**Point Value:** 6

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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