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Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Keith Henry Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, [2022]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781338759082
  • 1338759086
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 921 LEW 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.L49 P56 2022
Summary: When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote, Tybre is determined to meet him. His two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship!
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When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote, Tybre is determined to meet him. His two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship!

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