Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
By Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley
IllustratorsIllustrated by PJ LoughranEdition
Hardcover edition
PublisherPenguinImprintDialISBN
9780803741232
Awards and Honors2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
2016 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Winner, Older Children
2016 Amelia Bloomer List, Middle Grade–Nonfiction Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015, Teen Booklist Best Young Adult Books of 2015 Booklist Editor’s Choice 2015, Nonfiction, Older Readers Bulletin Blue Ribbon 2015, Nonfiction
ALA Notable Books for Children 2016, Older Readers
Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2015, Informational Books for Older Readers
2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 6–8
2016 CCBC Choices–Historical People, Places, and Events
2015 Cybils Awards Nomination, Young Adult Nonfiction
Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, History
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
“By the time I was fifteen years old, I had been in jail nine times.” The youngest participant in the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, tells her story. Lyrics to spirituals. Photographs and biographies of people who died or disappeared due to participating in the march. Notes on voting rights and the Voting Rights Act. Black-and-white period photographs. Full-color illustrations.
Title alpha Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Level Nonfiction Middle
Pages Count 128
Genre Nonfiction
Topics Lynda Blackmon Lowery (1950- ). Selma to Montgomery Rights March, 1965. Selma, Alabama. Race relations. African Americans. Civil rights. Twentieth-century U.S. history. African American suffrage. Civil rights movements.
SRC Level 4.700000
SRC Points 7.000000
Lexile 780L
Trim Size 6" x 9"
JLG Span Spring
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2015-01-07
JLG Release Date May 2015
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 8
Reading level Middle
Format Print
Nonfiction Middle Grades 5-8)
Nonfiction Middle
Nonfiction Middle Grades 5-8)
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