An inspiring story of a friendship between Congressman John Lewis and
ten-year-old activist Tybre Faw by New York Times bestselling and
Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney!
When young Tybre Faw discovers John Lewis and his heroic march across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for voting rights, Tybre is
determined to meet him.
Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma,
Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial
walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship!
In rich, poetic language, Andrea Davis Pinkney weaves the true story of
a boy with a dream--together with the story of a real-life hero (who
himself had a life-altering friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr. when
he was young!). Keith Henry Brown's deeply affecting paintings bring
this inspiring bond between a young activist and an elder congressman
vividly to life.
Who will be next to rise up and turn the page on history?