Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow WearyRead about the other books on the list.
by Elizabeth Partridge
Aimed at the preteen set, award-winner Partridge takes readers to Selma, Alabama, in 1965, the heart of the early civil-rights movement. Packed with stirring photographs, the book follows a group of courageous children who march with Martin Luther King, Jr. in hopes of gaining blacks the right to vote.
--Marshal Zeringue