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Alabama connection to 2009's National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
This is a biography of Claudette Colvin, an African-American teenager in 1950s Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on a bus nine months before Rosa Parks took the same stand.
For more information about this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, check out this website.
This is a biography of Claudette Colvin, an African-American teenager in 1950s Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on a bus nine months before Rosa Parks took the same stand.
For more information about this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, check out this website.
