Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack

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Book: Goin’ Someplace Special
Author: Patricia C. McKissack
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-81885-1

1. What is the name of the girl?
2. What is the name of the girl’s grandmother?
3. What did the girl ask her mother?
4. Did Tricia Ann pay the same amount for bus fare as her grandmother?
5. Where did Tricia Ann sit on the bus?
6. Tricia Ann had seen such signs all her life.  True or False
7. Mama Frances told Tricia Ann that those signs tell them where to sit, but they can’t tell them ______________________________________.
8. What did Tricia Ann feel wasn’t fair?
9. Who did Tricia Ann give her seat to?
10. Where did Tricia Ann go?
11. What did Mrs. Grannell say to Tricia Ann as she walked off the bus?
12. What did she see at the Capitol Square?
13. What was written on the bench that she tried to sit on?
14. Who was Jimmy Lee?
15. What did Jimmy Lee give Tricia Ann?
16. Who is Mr. John Willis?
17. What hotel did Tricia Ann enter?
18. The hotel manager referred to African Americans during this time period as _______________________________.
19. Who is Blooming Mary?
20. Where did Tricia Ann go after the Southland Hotel? (A)
21. Where did she go after A? (B)
22. Who did Tricia Ann meet at B?
23. What was the “Someplace Special” that Tricia Ann started her journey to?

Author’s Note
24. Where did the author grow up?
25. Was the city of Nashville segregated in the 1950s?
26. Nashville’s public library board of directors quietly voted to ___________________________________________________________.
27. Who is Andrew Carnegie?
28. What did Andrew Carnegie and the author’s grandmother know about the library?