In this Bank Street College of Education Best Childrens Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a childs unique perspective to an important chapter in Americas history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin Martin Luther King, Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.,
