My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Farris, Christine King

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780689843877)

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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Farris, Christine King

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

$19.99
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Farris, Christine King

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this "outstanding" (School Library Journal) and inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement that would change the world as we know it.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.

Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history.

Author: Christine King Farris
ISBN-10: 0689843879
ISBN-13: 9780689843877
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 10.10h x 12.20w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 64452 / My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Award: Keystone to Reading Book Award - Nominee
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2002 pg. 58
Ebony 12/01/2002 pg. 18
Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2003 pg. 65
Kirkus Review - Children 12/15/2002 pg. 1849
School Library Journal 02/01/2003 pg. 129
Booklist 02/15/2003 pg. 1088
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2003 pg. 224
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2003 pg. 272
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 466 - Superior,Well Above Average
Ebony 01/01/2005 pg. 24
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 466 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Christine King Farris
By Christine King Farris
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Christine King Farris is the sister of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the only surviving member of the King family. She is the author of the children's book My Brother Martin and has been on the faculty of Spelman College since 1958. She lives with her husband in Atlanta.

Chris Soentpiet (pronounced: soon-peet) is a recipient of a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators; has received accolades from the International Reading Association, Parents magazine, the American Library Association, the School Library Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Smithsonian; and has been recognized by the American Society of Portrait Artists Foundation. When not painting, Chris visits schools across the country promoting the love of children's literature and the arts. An honor graduate from Pratt Institute of Art, he lives in New York City with his wife. To learn more about Chris, visit his Web site at Soentpiet.com.

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