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Gr 4-8 In understated free verse, an unnamed, fictional girl narrates the events that preceded the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. She relates how she marched with other children to protest white-only lunch counters, went to the Lincoln Memorial to hear King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and was present at the church when "Someone tucked a bundle of dynamite/Under the church steps, then lit the fuse of hate." The format of the book is small, and it makes the reading experienc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Dramatic blank verse crystallizes the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. A fictional ten-year-old...Log In or Sign Up to Read More