Because Claudette

by Tracey Baptiste

Book Overview

From NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action.

When fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated bus on March 2, 1955, she had no idea she was about to make history. At school she was learning about abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593326407
• ISBN13: 9780593326404
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3