Freedom Riders

John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Author Ann Bausum
Hardcover
$18.95 US
On sale Dec 27, 2005 | 80 Pages | 9780792241737

Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.

No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the Freedom Rides after violence in Anniston, Alabama, left the original bus in flames with the riders injured and in retreat. Lewis and Zwerg joined the cause knowing their own fate could be equally harsh, if not worse. The journey they shared as freedom riders through the Deep South changed not only their own lives but our nation's history.
  • WINNER
    Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice
  • WINNER | 2007
    ALA the Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
  • WINNER | 2007
    Booklist Top of the List
  • WINNER | 2007
    NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
  • WINNER | 2007
    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
  • WINNER | 2007
    Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book
  • SUBMITTED
    ALA the Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
  • SUBMITTED
    Booklist Top of the List
  • SUBMITTED
    NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
  • FINALIST | 2007
    NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Ann Bausum writes about US history for young people. Her books consistently earn prominent national recognition. Denied, Detained, Deported was named the 2010 Carter G. Woodson Book Award winner at the secondary school level from the National Council for the Social Studies. Muckrakers earned the Golden Kite Award as best nonfiction book of the year from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Freedom Riders gained the Robert F. Sibert Honor designation from the American Library Association, and With Courage and Cloth received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as the year's best book on social justice issues for older readers. View titles by Ann Bausum

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Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.

No other book on the Freedom Riders has used such a personal perspective. These two young men, empowered by their successes in the Nashville student movement, were among those who volunteered to continue the Freedom Rides after violence in Anniston, Alabama, left the original bus in flames with the riders injured and in retreat. Lewis and Zwerg joined the cause knowing their own fate could be equally harsh, if not worse. The journey they shared as freedom riders through the Deep South changed not only their own lives but our nation's history.

Awards

  • WINNER
    Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice
  • WINNER | 2007
    ALA the Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
  • WINNER | 2007
    Booklist Top of the List
  • WINNER | 2007
    NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
  • WINNER | 2007
    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
  • WINNER | 2007
    Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book
  • SUBMITTED
    ALA the Best of the Best Books for Young Adults
  • SUBMITTED
    Booklist Top of the List
  • SUBMITTED
    NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
  • FINALIST | 2007
    NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

Author

Ann Bausum writes about US history for young people. Her books consistently earn prominent national recognition. Denied, Detained, Deported was named the 2010 Carter G. Woodson Book Award winner at the secondary school level from the National Council for the Social Studies. Muckrakers earned the Golden Kite Award as best nonfiction book of the year from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Freedom Riders gained the Robert F. Sibert Honor designation from the American Library Association, and With Courage and Cloth received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as the year's best book on social justice issues for older readers. View titles by Ann Bausum

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