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: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 01/01/2003
ISBN: 9780689856761
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.80h x 10.64w x 0.14d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 12/02/2002 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2002

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