If a Bus Could Talk : The Story of Rosa Parks (Paperback)

from taramankin

A strange-looking/talking bus picks up a young girl named Marcie. During her bus ride, the bus tells the story Rosa Parks. It gives childhood history about Rosa Parks' all the way through her adult life and the events to lead up the the Civil Rights movement. This would be a good book to introduc...

from lalfonso

This story gives details about Rosa Parks's childhood through her involvement as a leader with the NAACP. It begins as a fictional account of a child riding the Rosa Parks's bus. Then it goes into a historial account of Mrs. Parks's life. It gives readers an understanding of the racism that she e...

from tg172415

If A Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold is a good civil rights book. It tells the story of Rosa Parks and how she was forced to ride in the back of the bus. It talks about how white people were allowed to ride the school bus to school and she had to walk miles and miles to get there. Faith Ringgold...

from Nicholepeterse

The book is about a young girl named Marcie. She was trying to get on her bus for school and ended up getting on the Cleveland avenue bus. She finds out it isn't her bus for school but gets a history lesson from the bus itself about Rosa Parks. It starts when she was born and talks about her hard...

from MsLangdon

Part E Biography Ringgold, F. (1999). If a bus could talk: the story of Rosa Parks. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Marcie hops onto a bus that doesn't look like her regular school bus. Once on, she realizes that there is no driver and the bus is talking. It recounts the life ...