A Day at School
$14.99
On a cold February morning in 1976 Detroit,
fifteen-year-old Demetrius Franklin Young
does something no one expects:
he remains seated during the Pledge of Allegiance.
His quiet refusal begins with one question—
Why?
—but that question soon travels through the classrooms,
hallways, and private thoughts of an entire Black school community.
During the school’s first observance of Black History Month,
students and adults are compelled to examine what
liberty, justice, history, and education truly mean
—and whether a promise
becomes true simply because
everyone is made
to repeat it.
Told across a single unforgettable school day,
A Day at School is a warm, thoughtful, and deeply human
historical novel filled with humor, heart, courage,
and the honest questions children are often told they are too young to ask.
Because children learn more than the lessons adults assign to them.
Sometimes, they become the teachers inside the classroom.
And sometimes, learning begins with the question:
Why?
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