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Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-

Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma voting rights march / Turning fifteen on the road to freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ; as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrated by PJ Loughran. - New York, N.Y. : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015] - 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

School Library Journal, January 2015 Booklist starred, February 2015 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, February 2015 Kirkus Starred, November 2014 Horn Book, October 2015 Library Media Connection, October 2015 Christian Library, March 2016

Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her experiences as the youngest marcher on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

780 Lexile. Young Adult Follett School Solutions.



Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award/Honors, 2016

ISBN: 9780803741232

LCCN: 2013047316

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950- --Juvenile literature.
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Selma to Montgomery Rights March Selma, Ala.) (1965 : --Juvenile literature.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March Selma, Ala.) (1965 :

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Alabama--Selma--20th century--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Suffrage--History--Alabama--Selma--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements--History--Alabama--Selma--20th century--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
African Americans--Suffrage--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--20th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Selma (Ala.)--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
Selma (Ala.)--Race relations.

LC Class. No.: F334.S4 / L69 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 323.1196/0730761/45