Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

By Phillip M Hoose
Reading Level: High School, Middle SchoolGenre: Biography
Awards: Newbery Medal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) 2009
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.