Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice written by Phillips Hoose has won numerous awards. It is a Newberry Honor Book, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, and won a National Book Award. It was also a finalist in the Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction through YALSA at ALA. Awards well deserved. This chapter book gives insite to the fight a 15 year old girl had when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus. Although she was arrested for it, she received little publicity for it becaus the community felt that no one would listen to her side of the story because she was a little girl. That same year Rosa Parks did the same thing and so started the Civil Rights Movement. Claudette suffered through her teenage years, but she still contributed to the Montgomery bus boycott started by the Rosa Parks Movement. The author tells Claudette's story in his book which give a lot of insight to the Civil Rights Movement. The book includes a lot of facts about segregation, the bus boycotts and the Civil Rights Movement itself. The book includes copies of newspaper clippings and black and white photos. Rosa Parks is most known for the bus boycott, but Claudette Colvin was the catalyst to the movement. I meet Mr. Hoose and Mrs. Colvin at ALA this summer. Below is a scanned copy of my autographed book. I was honored to have meet them, and they both took the time to talk a little with me.
Hoose, Phillip (2009). Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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