If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom.
In this book a bus does talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the Civil Rights movement. At the end of Marcie's magical ride, she meets Rosa Parks herself at a birthday party with several distinguished guests. Wait until she tells her class about this

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 11/01/1999
ISBN: 9780689818929
Pages: 32
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 10.20h x 12.00w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 11/01/1999 pg. 1747
Publishers Weekly 11/15/1999 pg. 66
New York Times 11/21/1999 pg. 60
Booklist 01/01/2000 pg. 934
School Library Journal 01/01/2000 pg. 126
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 159 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 159 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Essence 12/01/2005 pg. 130

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 35405 / If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Reading Level: 5.3 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5