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Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Record details
- ISBN: 0605940444
- ISBN: 9780605940444
- ISBN: 1518210627
- ISBN: 9781518210624
- ISBN: 0803741235
- ISBN: 9780803741232
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Physical Description:
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Growing up strong and determined -- In the movement -- Jailbirds -- In the sweatbox -- Bloody Sunday -- Headed for Montgomery -- Turning 15 -- Weary and wet -- Montgomery at last -- Why voting rights? |
| Summary, etc.: | As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 12-17. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader 5.1. Reading Counts! 4.7. |
| Awards Note: | Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016 |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Rowayton Library | J 323.119 LOW (Text) | 33625130048759 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
