Rosa Parks: Meet a Civil Rights Hero (Meeting Famous People) [Library Binding]

Edith Hope Fine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Meeting Famous People

A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Gr. 3-4. The struggle for civil rights is the story here. Far from the myth of the tired, innocent seamstress, this clear biography in the Meeting Famous People series shows that Parks was a longtime political activist. Her grandparents had been slaves, and she grew up under segregation. But she was secretary of the NAACP in Montgomery, and in 1945, despite obstacles and after four tries, she was registered to vote. The climactic 1955 confrontation when she quietly refused to give up her bus seat to a white man is electrifying, and Fine explains how the action led to the organizing of the Montgomery bus boycott, which helped start the civil rights movement. The short, clear text and the spacious design, with big type and lots of pictures of segregation and protest, make this a fine introduction to the person and the political history. Hazel Rochman
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766020991
• ISBN-13: 978-0766020993
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in Michigan, Edith Hope Fine is a teacher-turned-writer. Her books include user-friendly grammar, plus biographies, science, and picture books for kids. Her latest, Water, Weed, and Wait, about kids building a school garden, has been named a winner of Junior Master Gardeners' Growing Good Kids--Excellence in Children's Literature Award. Other titles are Barbara McClintock: Novel Prize Geneticist, Under the Lemon Moon, Armando and the Blue Tarp School, Nitty-Gritty Grammar, More Nitty-Gritty Grammar, and CryptoMania! Teleporting into Greek and Latin with the CryptoKids.

Active in SCBWI (want to write for children? Google it!), Edith is a bibliophile and logophile. She lives near San Diego. Visit her at www.edithfine.com. And yes, she's working on teleporting.