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Starred Review on July 1, 2022 | Elementary
Gr 1–5—Ten-year-old Tybre Faw wished to meet his hero Congressman John Lewis and shake his hand. Tybre Faw knew just about everything about Lewis, who championed voter's rights. When he was younger, Lewis would preach sermons to the chickens on his family's farm. Young John Lewis was as inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just as Tybre Faw was inspired by Lewis. On a Sunday in 1965, peaceful protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the right to vote, but sadly, before they were able to cross it, they were violently att...Log In or Sign Up to Read More