Interest Level
Grades PreK - 3
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.1
Lexile Measure®: 790L
DRA: 34-38
Guided Reading: P
Genre
- Biography
- General Nonfiction
Theme/Subject
- Civil Rights Movement
- Historic Figures
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
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About This Book
From the viewpoint of a bus, Ringgold's touching, vibrant illustrations and gentle prose tell the story of Rosa Parks, an elderly black woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and encouraged others to stand up for freedom.About the Authors or Illustrators
Faith Ringgold was born in 1930, in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City. She went to City College in New York to study art and earned her degree from the School of Education. She followed the family tradition of teaching, but never stopped creating her own art or telling stories. Today she is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego and lives in Englewood, New Jersey. She also has art studios in New York. She is married and has two daughters and three granddaughters.
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