Download or read book Back of the Bus written by Aaron Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems like any other winter day in Montgomery, Alabama. Mama and child are riding where they're supposed to--way in the back of the bus. The boy passes the time by watching his marble roll up and down the aisle with the motion of the bus, until from way up front a big commotion breaks out. He can't see what's going on, but he can see the policeman arrive outside and he can see Mama's chin grow strong. "There you go, Rosa Parks," she says, "stirrin' up a nest of hornets. Tomorrow all this'll be forgot." But they both know differently. With childlike words and powerful illustrations, Aaron Reynolds and Coretta Scott King medalist Floyd Cooper recount Rosa Parks' act of defiance through the eyes of a child--who will never forget.
Download or read book Voices from the Back of the Bus written by Stewart McKinney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period. Recounted with genuine warmth and much humour, over a hundred players recall the scrapes, the games, the laughs, the glory and the gritty reality of the pre-professional game. Packed with true rugby tales from the days when men played purely for the love of the game and of their nation, and multimillion-pound contracts and sponsorship deals were unheard of, this refreshing, revealing and often hilarious collection will inspire sports fans of all generations.
Download or read book My View from the Back of the Bus written by Merritt D. Long and published by My View LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his lens as a "colored" child, "Negro" teenager, "Black" young man, and finally successful African American state official, this book reveals how Merritt D. Long was shaped by - and helped to shape - American history. Jim Crow laws, segregation and the civil rights movement are the backdrop to Long's childhood and youth in Alabama in the 1950's and 1960's. As a child, the color of Long's skin dictated what doors he could walk through, where he could sit on the bus, where he could eat, and what water fountains he could use. But like many other southern Black people, the powerful pride of his family and community steeled him against the incessant insults of racism. And the civil rights movement help fuel his determination to become an educated, successful professional. Along the way, including a Morehouse College education in Atlanta, he met and was inspired by Muhammed Ali, Rosa Parks, and Julian Bond. But even at the pinnacle of his professional success as the head of several major state agencies, he continued to experience racist reactions to his authority and leadership. His journey led him to become a widely admired community leader, a loving husband and father, and a mentor and benefactor to the next generation of young people who struggle to overcome economic hardship and the still-present barriers of entrenched, systemic racism.
Download or read book Don t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus written by Mo Willems and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Willems, #1 New York Times best-selling creator and three-time Caldecott Honoree, presents the 20th anniversary edition of the book that started it all: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, now featuring an exclusive board game! Finally, a book you can say "no" to! When the Bus Driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place—a pigeon! But you've never met a pigeon like this one before. As the Pigeon pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, readers answer back and decide his fate. Mo Willems' hilarious picture book was awarded a 2004 Caldecott Honor and has been inducted into the Picture Book Hall of Fame. Now, twenty years later, readers can amp up the fun in an all-new board game featuring the Pigeon! Players drive their bus pieces around town. The first player to get to the Bus Depot wins, but remember—don't let the Pigeon drive the bus! Say “No!” to all the Pigeon books! The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! For Mo’ amazing books, check out these other great series: Knuffle Bunny Elephant & Piggie Unlimited Squirrels
Download or read book Little Yellow Bus written by Erin Guendelsberger and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride along in this heartwarming back to school picture book about bravery and facing first day jitters! The Little Yellow Bus had prepared for this day for a long time and how great it would be to pick up children and drive them to their school building—all by himself! Yellow wanted to feel excited, but instead, he was filled with first day worries. With a little help and encouragement from Mom and Dad, Little Yellow takes a deep breath, starts his engine, and decides that it's time to prove to himself that he can be brave. Little Yellow Bus is the heartwarming reminder that sometimes even the days when we are scared and anxious can become the most wonderful adventure, if we only believe in ourselves. Filled with beautiful full-color illustrations and an inspiring message for kids, this timeless story about courage is one you will want to come back to again and again. Why readers love Little Yellow Bus: For fans of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Little Red Sleigh and Little Blue Bunny Parents, grandparents, and teachers will have fun reading aloud this growth-mindset book to kids Perfect first day of school gift for kids ages 4-7 or holiday stocking stuffer An anxiety book that helps children who are nervous about the first day of school practice bravery and face their fears Screen-free fun for children during the fall season and beyond
Download or read book The Bus Ride Back written by L. A. Car and published by Palmetto Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I woke up one morning in Miami, Florida to find my career, my passion, and my sanity extracted from beneath me. Rogue cops manipulated the media and destroyed my police career to cover up their deception and their official misconduct, while attorneys and state prosecutors sought to understand if their behavior actually rose to the level of an illegal/criminal act. At the end of the day, one glaring question remained: Who are the good guys? And who are the bad guys? I continued on with my life, emotionally distraught.Not long afterwards, I regained my bearings and launched a new career deeply embedded in the nightlife of the Miami bar business. I flourished for the next twelve years until fate and bad luck found me locked up in a federal prison on drug trafficking charges.The title of this book refers to the twenty-hour Greyhound bus ride I took back to Miami after completing my federal prison sentence. Sitting in my seat and watching the night move past prompted flashbacks of my life and caused me to relive the events that brought me to that moment. The magic in this journey brings to light startling revelations that act as a catalyst to transform me back to the person I always was. My passion, my drive, my perseverance, and any good traits I ever had that drove me at a young age to protect and serve the citizens of my city-they returned I walked off that Greyhound bus in the early morning hours wielding a newfound hope, desire, and perseverance that would ultimately propel me to a life I could have only imagined.
Download or read book The Little School Bus written by Margery Cuyler and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Driver Bob the school bus driver and his little school bus as they wake early, pick up the children, and drop them off at school. Then it's off to the garage to fix a tail light. All in a day's work for this trusty team. The lyrical text, catchy rhyme, and bright pictures of Margery Cuyler's The Little School Bus make this a perfect choice for preschoolers who are soon to be school bus riders!
Download or read book The Bus Ride written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A black child protests an unjust law in this story loosely based on Rosa Parks' historic decision not to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Download or read book The 57 Bus written by Dashka Slater and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. Two ends of the same line. Two sides of the same crime. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a Black teen, lived in the economically challenged flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. But in The 57 Bus, award-winning journalist Dashka Slater shows that what might at first seem like a simple matter of right and wrong, justice and injustice, victim and criminal, is something more complicated—and far more heartbreaking. Awards and Accolades for The 57 Bus: A New York Times Bestseller Stonewall Book Award Winner YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist A Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Winner A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Don’t miss Dashka Slater’s newest propulsive and thought-provoking nonfiction book, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed, which National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi hails as “powerful, timely, and delicately written.”
Download or read book Pete the Cat The Wheels on the Bus written by James Dean and published by Harpercollins Childrens Books. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete the cat's school day is recounted in this twist on the classic song.
Download or read book If a Bus Could Talk written by Faith Ringgold and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the African American woman and Civil Rights worker, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott, which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
Download or read book Bus People written by Mike Pentecost and published by Mike Pentecost. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever ridden on a Greyhound Bus? If you have, this book will bring back some memories. If you haven't, prepare to hop alongside new author Mike Pentecost and join him for this 30 day adventure around America. Bus People: 30 Days on the Road with America's Nomads is a compelling look at life on the bus. Witty, compassionate and revealing, Bus People affords you the opportunity to get better connected with a community of people who live their lives in transition. The bus symbolizes hope and new beginnings for many. But, it is an uncomfortable, inconvenient and unpredictable mode of travel. Bus People focuses on the stories, the hopes, dreams and despair that accompany the 18 million passengers that Greyhound serves each year. Come along for the ride!
Download or read book Rosa s Bus written by Jo S. Kittinger and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the remarkable story of Bus #2857 and its passengers, including Rosa Parks, who changed history in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955. Like all buses in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s, bus #2857 was segregated: white passengers sat in the front, and Black passengers sat in the back. Bus #2857 was ordinary -- until a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the Civil Rights moment, which was led by a young minister named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For 382 days, Black passengers chose to walk rather than ride the buses in Montgomery. This picture book is told from the point of view of the bus, telling its story from the streets where it rode, to its present home in the Henry Ford Museum.
Download or read book Just As I Thought written by Grace Paley and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.
Download or read book The Bus for Us written by Suzanne Bloom and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect picture book to share with children starting school or those riding the school bus for the first time. It’s the first day of school for Tess, and it’s also her very first ride on a school bus. Waiting at the bus stop with her older friend Gus, Tess eagerly asks, “Is this the bus for us, Gus?” as each vehicle passes by. Award-winning author and illustrator Suzanne Bloom introduces young readers to a diverse cast of characters and a variety of vehicles in this charming book that makes a great gift for any child about to start school.
Download or read book The Bingity Bangity School Bus written by Fleur Conkling and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 2015 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the adults want to junk Busby the school bus, he runs away and winds up in a field where the children convince the adults to upgrade rather than replace him.
Download or read book Molly Rides the School Bus written by and published by Albert Whitman. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly is worried about riding the school bus on her first day of kindergarten, but a friendly older girl helps her adjust.
