Status
Available
Series
Publication
Top Shelf Productions (2013), Edition: 1st, 128 pages
Library's review
"Eisner winner Powell’s dramatic black-and-white graphic art ratchets up the intensity in this autobiographical opener by a major figure in the civil rights movement.
In this first of a projected trilogy, Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders and currently in his 13th term as a U.S.
A powerful tale of courage and principle igniting sweeping social change, told by a strong-minded, uniquely qualified eyewitness. (Graphic memoir. 11-15)" A Kirkus Starred Review, www.kirkusreviews.com
In this first of a projected trilogy, Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders and currently in his 13th term as a U.S.
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Representative, recalls his early years—from raising (and preaching to) chickens on an Alabama farm to meeting Martin Luther King Jr. and joining lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville in 1960. The account flashes back and forth between a conversation with two young visitors in Lewis’ congressional office just prior to Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and events five or more decades ago. His education in nonviolence forms the central theme, and both in his frank, self-effacing accounts of rising tides of protest being met with increasingly violent responses and in Powell’s dark, cinematically angled and sequenced panels, the heroism of those who sat and marched and bore the abuse comes through with vivid, inspiring clarity. The volume closes with the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (which Lewis went on to chair), and its publication is scheduled to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Lewis preceded Dr. King on the podium: “Of everyone who spoke at the march, I’m the only one who’s still around.”A powerful tale of courage and principle igniting sweeping social change, told by a strong-minded, uniquely qualified eyewitness. (Graphic memoir. 11-15)" A Kirkus Starred Review, www.kirkusreviews.com
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Awards
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (Nonfiction — 2013)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 2017)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2016)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2019)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Grades 4-8 — 2015)
Garden State Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2018)
Coretta Scott King Award (Honor — 2014)
Blue Hen Book Award (Nominee — 2015)
Alabama Author Award (Young Adult — 2016)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — High School — 2016)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2016)
Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (Selection — 2014)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee — 2015)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2014)
CCBC Choices (2014)
Notable Children's Book (2014)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Teen — 2013)
OYAN Graphic Rave (2014)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2013-08-13
ISBN
1603093001 / 9781603093002
Other editions
March: Book One by John Lewis (Paperback)