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Title: Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues by Raul Colon, Harriette Gillem Robinet ISBN: 0-689-83886-7 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reminiscent of Watsons Go to Birmingham
Comment: The characters are so real and the story so well-written that I felt like I was walking right along with them. It's a wonderful book for children to get the feel of what it was like during the Civil Rights movement. I'm a middle school teacher, and I highly recommend this book for grades 4-8.
Rating: 5
Summary: Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Comment: A mystery and historical fiction inspired by the Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks, 1956), tells a story about how the black citizenry were affected by the bus boycott. Alfa, a 12 year old black boy living with his grandmother and sister, Zinnia, helps support them with his after school job. They are accused of stealing money from one of their cleaning jobs for "whites", and in addition, someone is stealing their rent money. The boy and his sister use the scientific method and mystery solving skills (gained from reading mystery novels) to solve the crime. The reader sees Dr. Martin Luther King's and Christian precepts for non-violence put into action by Alfa, as he successfully confronts his white tormentors. Conveys the values and flavor of the times. Includes bibliographic references.
Rating: 4
Summary: Powerful and moving
Comment: Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. The historic, courageous, terrifying bus boycott had started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person. Just what this meant to most people becomes very clear in this edgy, uncomfortable book. Alfa, aged 12, and his sister, age 15, live in dire poverty with their great-grandmother Merryfield. Alfa's mother left them there years before, and has never communicated with them since. Their great-grandmother is very elderly, some say maybe even ninety years old, and beginning to be forgetful. She makes about $40 a month; Alfa makes another $20 a month working hard in a grocery store. Rent is $50 a month, but part of the rent money is regularly disappearing. Alfa determines to solve the mystery, but stay within the system that keeps African-Americans perpetually in fear and victims of anyone who wants to get them in trouble.
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Title: The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park ISBN: 0440418135 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: How Tia Lola Came to Stay by Julia Alvarez ISBN: 0440418704 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: All the Way Home by PATRICIA REILLY GIFF ISBN: 0385322097 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs by Betsy Hearne ISBN: 0689841221 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Wingwalker by Rosemary Wells ISBN: 0786803975 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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