Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Harriette Gillem Robinet$6.79
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"Oh, I'm singing the bus-rider blues,
the Alabamy bus-rider blues.
I got me a feeling, deep down inside,
It ain't never ever gonna be the same."
During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus protest, Alfa Merryfield and his family struggle to pay the rent. But someone keeps stealing their rent money -- and now someone is accusing them of stealing!
With only a few days left before rent is due, Alfa and his sister, Zinnia, know they don't have much time. To solve this mystery, they must "walk the walk and talk the talk of nonviolence" that Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders preach -- and what they discover may be more than they dreamed...
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 01/01/2002
ISBN: 9780689838866
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.16w x 0.47d
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 12/24/2001 pg. 67
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2002 pg. 77
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2001
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 41795 / Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4
the Alabamy bus-rider blues.
I got me a feeling, deep down inside,
It ain't never ever gonna be the same."
During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus protest, Alfa Merryfield and his family struggle to pay the rent. But someone keeps stealing their rent money -- and now someone is accusing them of stealing!
With only a few days left before rent is due, Alfa and his sister, Zinnia, know they don't have much time. To solve this mystery, they must "walk the walk and talk the talk of nonviolence" that Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders preach -- and what they discover may be more than they dreamed...
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 01/01/2002
ISBN: 9780689838866
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.16w x 0.47d
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 12/24/2001 pg. 67
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2002 pg. 77
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2001
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 41795 / Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4