Fighting with Love - The Legacy of John Lewis

"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"--

About the author

Lesa Cline-Ransome is the author of numerous nonfiction and historical fiction titles for picture book, chapter book, middle grade, and young adult readers including Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams and The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne. Her verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and received a Jane Addams Children’s Book Honor, Christopher Award, and Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustration. Her debut middle grade novel, Finding Langston, won the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and received the Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. She lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York with her husband and frequent collaborator, James Ransome, and their family. Visit her at LesaClineRansome.com.

Product details

• Authors: Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Assisted by: James E Ransome (Illustration), James E. Ransome (Illustration)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2024
• EAN: 9781534496620
• ISBN: 978-1-5344-9662-0
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 292 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries