Claudette Colvin

★ “Outstanding.” —School Library Journal, Starred Review

★ “Hoose’s evenhanded account investigates Colvin’s motives and influences, and carefully establishes the historical context so that readers can appreciate both Colvin’s maturity and bravery and the boycott leadership’s pragmatism.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

★ “Hoose encourages teens to empathize with an age peer, once dismissed as too ‘emotional’ to withstand public scrutiny, who later testified in the federal lawsuit that would finally end discrimination on public transportation.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Starred Review

★ “This inspiring title shows the incredible difference that a single young person can make.” —Booklist, Starred Review

★ “Hoose reasserts her [Claudette Colvin] place in history with this vivid and dramatic account, complemented with photographs, sidebars, and liberal excerpts from interviews conducted with Colvin.” —The Horn Book, Starred Review

“Phillip Hoose gives depth and context to the larger-than-life, sometimes mythologized history of the civil rights movement…Hoose’s book, based in part on interviews with Colvin and people who knew her, finally gives her the credit she deserves.”  —The New York Times Book Review

“History might have forgotten Claudette Colvin, or relegated her to footnote status, had writer Phillip Hoose not stumbled upon her name in the course of other research and tracked her down….The photos of the era are riveting and Claudette’s eloquent bravery is unforgettable.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, a teenager who knew her constitutional rights and was willing to be arrested to prove it.” —The Washington Post

“This is a story that if taught in every classroom in the nation, might well inspire a new generation of young activists to join the on-going struggle for social justice.” —Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

“Phil Hoose’s profile of the remarkable Claudette Colvin is MUST reading for anyone still imbued with hope. She is a lighthouse in a stormy sea.” —Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War