Starting the Conversation: Juvenile Non-Fiction

 

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1. Child of the civil rights movement

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Shelton, Paula Young
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction
J323.119 SHELT
Remote Storage - Childrens Non-Fiction
J323.119 SHELT
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The author, the daughter of Andrew Young, describes the participation of Martin Luther King, Jr., along with her father and others, in the civil rights movement and in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

2. Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice

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Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
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Richard B Harrison - Juvenile Biography - Does Not Circulate
JB COLVIN
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Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the buscompany.

3. Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions

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Barton, Chris
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Athens Drive Community - Childrens Biography
JB JOHNSON
Cary Regional - Childrens Biography
JB JOHNSON
Green Road Community - Childrens Biography
JB JOHNSON
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Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.

4. The youngest marcher: the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist

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Levinson, Cynthia
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Cary Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction has 3
J323.092 LEVIN
Eva H. Perry Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction has 3
J323.092 LEVIN
Fuquay-Varina Community - Childrens Non-Fiction
J323.092 LEVIN
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Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.