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Language: English
Published by Albert Whitman & Co, 2001
- Hardcover
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- Title
- A Bus of Our Own
- Author
- Evans, Freddi Williams
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Co
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807509701
- ISBN 13
- 9780807509708
- Illustrator
- Costello, Shawn
Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mabel Jean and the other black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white children have.
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Review
"Long before Rosa Parks, a group of African American sharecroppers in a rural community in Mississippi organized their own bus so that their children could get to school. The story is based on a real event, and Evans tells it through the eyes of a young child, Mable Jean, who is desperate to get to school, but just can't keep up with her older brother and make the five-mile walk there and back every day. Set in the South more than 50 years ago, Costello's oil paintings show the suffering (in one unforgettable double-page spread the white kids on the bus jeer as they pass the walking children) but also the determination of the black community.... The drama is in the Facts about what ordinary people did together."
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