Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary

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Hardcover
Author: Elizabeth Partridge
Publisher: Viking
Publish Date: October 2009
Language: English
Reading Level: 6.6
EAN: 9780670011896

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Overview

An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author

Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.

Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight into the chaotic, passionate, and deadly three months of protests that culminated in the landmark march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Focusing on the courageous children who faced terrifying violence in order to march alongside King, this is an inspiring look at their fight for the vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white photos accompany the text.

Details

Pages: 80
Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.6 x 0.4 in
Lexile Score: 960
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus (MG+)
Point Value: 3
ISBN: 0670011894

Awards

2011 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee (Junior Book)
2011 Tayshas Reading - Commended (Young Adult)
2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Winner (Nonfiction)
2010 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended (Ten to Fourteen)
2010 Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Winner (Books for Older Children)
2009 Cybils - Finalist (Nonfiction-Mid Gr/YA)
2009 L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner (Young Adult Literature)