Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Bausum, Ann

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792241737)

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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Bausum, Ann

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

$18.95
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Bausum, Ann

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

$18.95
Format: Hardcover
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Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.

No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the Freedom Rides after violence in Anniston, Alabama, left the original bus in flames with the riders injured and in retreat. Lewis and Zwerg joined the cause knowing their own fate could be equally harsh, if not worse. The journey they shared as freedom riders through the Deep South changed not only their own lives but our nation's history.

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Author: Ann Bausum
ISBN-10: 0792241738
ISBN-13: 9780792241737
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2005
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 11.04h x 8.90w x 0.51d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 107660 / Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2006 pg. 60
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2006 pg. 342 - Recommended
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2006 pg. 339
School Library Journal 05/01/2006 pg. 140
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2006 pg. 264 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2006 pg. 376 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2007 pg. 12
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2007 pg. 1
By Ann Bausum
By Ann Bausum
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Ann Bausum writes about US history for young people. Her books consistently earn prominent national recognition. Denied, Detained, Deported was named the 2010 Carter G. Woodson Book Award winner at the secondary school level from the National Council for the Social Studies. Muckrakers earned the Golden Kite Award as best nonfiction book of the year from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Freedom Riders gained the Robert F. Sibert Honor designation from the American Library Association, and With Courage and Cloth received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as the year's best book on social justice issues for older readers.

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