Book Cover Image of Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! by Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose

Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!
by , Illustrated by Bea Jackson

    Publication Date: Nov 12, 2024
    List Price: $19.99
    Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    Target Age Group: Early Reader
    ISBN13: 9780374389734
    Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

    Description of Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! by Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose

    Civil rights icon Claudette Colvin teams up with Phillip Hoose—author of the Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning blockbuster biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice—to tell her groundbreaking story in this unforgettable picture book illustrated by New York Times-bestselling artist Bea Jackson.

    Montgomery, Alabama 1955. Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin is tired. Tired of white people thinking they’re better than her. Tired of going to separate schools and separate bathrooms. Most of all, she’s tired of having to give up her seat on the bus whenever a white person tells her to. She wants freedom NOW! But what can one teenager do?

    On a bus ride home from school one day, young Claudette takes a stand for justice and refuses to get up from her seat—nine months before Rosa Parks will become famous for doing the same. What follows will not only transform Claudette’s life but the course of history itself.

    In the words of Claudette Colvin herself, as told to acclaimed nonfiction writer Phillip Hoose, this empowering, heroic story illustrates how one simple act of courage can create real and lasting change.