Title: Freedom Riders
Author: Ann Bausum
Publisher: National Geographic
Date: 2006
Age Range: 5th grade and up
Summary: Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.
Strengths:
I really like how the book covers the lives of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg. It helps the reader see how different their lives were and yet both became a part of the Freedom Riders. With the back story on the two it also helps give the reader some back story on what is happening at that point in time in America. The real pictures on every other page also helps the reader with visual images of the event.
Concerns:
The middle of the book is mostly about the violence that happens to the riders which some parents won't want their young children to read.
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