This book tells the story of Lewis Michaux Sr. and his Harlem bookstore, a gathering place where people like Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and Muhammad Ali came together to share ideas and inspire change.
After reading Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen, use this Memory Matching puzzle to help students build familiarity with the book's vocabulary words.
After reading Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen use this printable and interactive Word Search puzzle to extend student learning. Find and circle words across, down, and diagonally.
This book relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.