Voices from the March on Washington [hc]
Poems by J. Patrick Lewis [Ohio] & George Ella Lyon [Kentucky]
From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, “Don’t you dare go to that march,” to the young child riding above the crowd on her father’s shoulders, each voice brings a unique perspective to this tale. As the characters tell their personal stories of this historic day, their chorus plunges readers into the experience of being at the march- walking shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, hearing Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech, heading home inspired. 128 pages
"Through over 70 largely first-person poems, the poets rekindle the spirit of the fight for racial equality in the United States with imagined voices of young and old, black and white, educated and underprivileged, supporters and detractors and drive home the volume’s theme of taking personal responsibility in helping this country 'steer toward justice together.'" -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review (Ages 10+)
October 1, 2014
AR Level=6.0
