# Claudette Colvin

**Author:** Phillip Hoose
**Grade range:** Grades 6–10
**First published:** 2009
**Page count:** 143
**ISBN-13:** `9781429948210`
**ISBN-10:** `1429948213`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/claudette-colvin-twice-toward-justice
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure in this multi-award winning, mega-selling biography from the incomparable Phillip Hoose. “When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” —Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by co

## Where this book is assigned

### National Book Award for Young People's Literature

- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2009 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2009 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2009 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2009 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2009 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)

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