Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery,... read more
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- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2009
Word Count 32,581
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1000L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 129138
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Montgomery
- Civil rights
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Segregation in transportation
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- African American civil rights workers
- African Americans--Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- African Americans
- History
- African American teenage girls--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--Juvenile literature
- Alabama
- African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Colvin, Claudette, 1939---Juvenile literature
- Colvin, Claudette
- Montgomery (Ala.)
- African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Race relations
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography--Juvenile literature
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- Nonfiction, 9-10
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- Middle School Classroom Libraries
- Working Together for Justice
- ELA Curriculum Materials Grade 7
- Women’s History Month Books
- Black History Secondary
- Racism & Justice
- Summer 2020 Grade 7 Accelerated ELA Unit
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Awards & Distinctions 11
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Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2020
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Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2020
Commended, 2010
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John Newbery Medal, 1922-2020
Honor, 2010
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YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2020
Finalist, 2010
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Commended, 2010
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CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
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Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2020
Selection, 2010
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Fanfare, 2001 - 2019
Selection, 2009
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