This book relays the factual details of the Montgomery Bus Boycott through multiple accounts of the event. Readers learn details from the point of view of a civil rights activist, a church leader, and an opponent of the boycott. This book offers opportunities to compare and contrast various narrative perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.
| Interest Level | Grade 4 - Grade 8 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 5 |
| Dewey | 323.1196/073076147 |
| Lexile | 900L |
| ATOS Reading Level | 5.9 |
| Guided Reading Level | T |
| Publisher | Cherry Lake Publishing |
| Series | Perspectives Library |
| Language | English |
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| Available Formats | Reinforced book (9781624314186), Paperback (9781624314940), PDF (9781624314568), ePub (9781631885297), Hosted ebook (9781624315329), Kindle (9781631375170) |
| Copyright | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 32 |
| Dimensions | 7.5 x 9.5 |
| Graphics | Full-color photographs |
Author: Martin Gitlin
Martin Gitlin is an educational book author based in Connecticut. He won more than 45 awards as a newspaper sportswriter from 1991 to 2002. Included was a first-place award from the Associated Press for his coverage of the 1995 World Series. He has had more than 200 books published since 2006. Most of them were written for students.
| Author/Illustrator biography |
| Glossary of key words |
| Index |
| Informative sidebars |
| Table of contents |
| Full-color photographs |