Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom - My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes A Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book Kirkus Best Books of 2015 Booklist Editors' Choice 2015 BCCB Blue Ribbon 2015 As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, 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. Straightforward and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated memoir brings readers into the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, complementing Common Core classroom learning and bringing history alive for young readers.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Buckley, Elspeth Leacock, Pj Loughran, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Lynda Blackmon/ Leacock Lowery
• Assisted by: Susan Buckley (Reader / Narrator), Elspeth Leacock (Reader / Narrator), Pj Loughran (Illustration)
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9780803741232
• ISBN: 978-0-8037-4123-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Assisted by: Susan Buckley
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / General, Educational: History