Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Turning fifteen on the road to freedom
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| Other authors / contributors: | Leacock, Elspeth, contributor.
Buckley, Susan Washburn, contributor.
Loughran, PJ, illustrator.
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| ISBN: | 9780803741232
0803741235
9781518210624
1518210627
9780605940444
0605940444
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| Summary: | As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history.
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| Target Audience: | Ages 12-17.
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| Study Program Information: | Accelerated Reader 5.1.
Reading Counts! 4.7.
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| Awards: | Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016
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