<b>From <i>NYT</i> bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action.</b><br><br>When fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated bus on March 2, 1955, she had no idea she was about to make history. At school she was learning about abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, which helped inspire her decision to refuse to give up her seat to a white woman, which led to her arrest, which began a crucial chain of events: Rosa Park''s sit-in nine months later, the organization of the Montgomery bus boycott by activists like Professor Jo Ann Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Supreme Court decision that Alabama''s bus segregation was unconstitutional—a major triumph for the civil rights movement. <br><br>Because of Claudette''s brave stand against injustice, history was transformed. Now i
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<p><b>Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, learn about two brave women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott!<br><br></b>A Black woman who refused to give up her...
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<DIV><B>The start of an exciting series filled with Caribbean folklore and daring adventure.</B><BR/><BR/> Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly...
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<B>“In <I>African Icons</I>, Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This is a great beginner’s guide to pre-colonial Africa.”<BR/>—Ibram...
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But consequences can't be put off forever, as Bianca learns when she and her best friend, Lonnie, are in a terrible car crash. Waking up in the hospital, Bianca is faced with questions she's not equipped to answer.
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