![]() ![]() With the focus on an array of time periods in American history, this book is definitely one of my favorite narrative nonfiction books for 5th grade. Rules by Cynthia Lord AvidArtAficionado 6 subscribers Subscribe 11 Share 8K views 11 years ago A girl named Catherine wants a normal life and a best friend. ![]() Evans vividly recall America’s battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one woman’s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard. Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. ![]() She sees her parents trying to register to vote. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Īs Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky-she sees her family’s history. ![]()
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