# Just Like Martin

**Author:** Ossie Davis
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1992
**Page count:** 215
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780671732028`
**ISBN-10:** `0671732021`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/just-like-martin
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Summary: Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, 14 yr. old Stone organizes a children’s march for civil rights in the Autumn of 1963. Theme: Civil Rights

## Themes

- fathers and sons
- afro-americans
- civil rights movements
- african americans

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1995-1996 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1995-1996 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1995-1996 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1995-1996 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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