Twelve Days in May
Freedom Ride 1961

Short informative account of the Freedom Riders, and the violence they encountered. Lots of interesting photos included.......more

Get this into your classroom. Book talk this with your students, read aloud excerpts, and then leave for them to grab up. Make this part of an integrated unit of study. Buy a set for small groups to read and discuss. Spend time looking closely at the photographs. Introduce words like perseverance, d......more

Sibert Medal (2018) - The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001 with support from Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc., is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book publishe......more

This book is a great resource for students or classes studying the Civil Rights Movement and especially the Freedom Riders. It is packed with archival photos of the riders, as well as images of other protests such as marches and sit-ins. Key figures in the Freedom Ride such as the riders, organizers......more

It is hard to imagine the courage it took for those 13 men and women to board those two Greyhound buses on May 4, 1961 as the Freedom Riders set off from Washington, D.C. bound for New Orleans, Louisiana. They surely knew some of what they might face as they attempt to highlight how the law is being......more