# 22: Ron's Big Mission

Title: Ron’s Big Mission

Author: Rose Blue & Corinne J. Nader

Illustrator: Don Tate

Publishing Company: Scholastic

Copyright Date: 2009

# of pages: 31

Genre/category: Historical Fiction

 

            I choose to use this book, because I really like the fact that Ron takes up for what he believes in. In the book, Ron is only nine years old, but he already has dream of being a pilot. He wakes up one morning and goes straight to the library to check out some book on airplanes and aviation. When Ron goes to the desk to check-out books, he is told that black people can not check-out. They can only read them in the library. Ron jumps up on the table and refuses to budge, even after the librarian calls the police. The librarian realizes the only thing she can do is give Ron his own library card.

            It is very hard for me to tell the exact medium that was used in this book. The illustrations in this book look like they may have been done with watercolors, but I am not sure. The pictures are whole page illustrations. Many of the illustrations in this book are also two-page spread.

            This book would be good for kids in third or fourth grade. There are several ways to use this book in a classroom.  One way would be to have kids do a journal entry on how they would feel if they were like this boy and not able to check out books. Another ways is to have an open discussion about how the characters in this book responded to the events that took place in the story. Students could also do another writing assignment telling what actions they would have taken if they were the librarian. This book has not won any awards.