My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Hardcover
Publish Date: January 2003
Language: English
Reading Level: 5
EAN: 9780689843877

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Overview

Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this “outstanding” (School Library Journal) and inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement that would change the world as we know it.

Mother Dear, one day Im going to turn this world upside down.

Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson–little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history.

Details

Pages: 32
Dimensions: 10.1 x 12.2 x 0.5 in
Lexile Score: 970
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 0689843879

Awards

2007 Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee (Nonfiction)
2006 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee (Grades 3-6)
2005 Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee (Intermediate)
2005 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee (Children's)
2005 Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee (Grades K-3)