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Book Reviews of Rosa Parks: My Story

Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks My Story
Author: Rosa Parks, James Haskins
PBS Market Price: $7.59 or $3.69+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780141301204
ISBN-10: 0141301201
Publication Date: 1/1/1999
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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4.4 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Puffin Books
Book Type: Paperback
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9 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on
This is meant to be a book for young teens but I loved it as well. We picked it up after Rosa Parks died. It was fascinating to read about Rosa'a childhood and to get the "behind the scenes" of her life and every thing that really ahppened that fateful day!
reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on + 57 more book reviews
A very True and Compelling story
reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on + 66 more book reviews
This is the TRUE story of this brave lady, written in her words with a ghostwriter.
reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on + 105 more book reviews
This well-known story is considerably refreshed by Parks's personal narrative, punctuated by numerous black-and-white photographs. In simple, gracious, compelling language she describes her childhood, family life, and elusive educational opportunities. She explains how her husband encouraged and supported her participation in civil rights activities, and provides with clarity the generally paltry regard for the contributions of black women by the movement's organizers. In this recounting of her life, she corrects some media-created distortions of events. Her references to so many people may overwhelm some readers at times, but this does not diminish the overall impact of a wonderful, warm autobiography.
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The story of the Rosa Parks incident on the bus. There was alot I didn't know about the incident and about her life. It was a good read but some parts were hard to read. It's sad that people were such racists back then.
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This is a great autobiography! Everyone has heard about her not changing her seat on a bus, but it also tells you more about history, than I actually knew. Such as Martin Luther King. It is truly a book for everyone to read, to get the truth, about civil rights, and her part in it!
reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on + 163 more book reviews
This was a very moving story in Mrs. Rosa Parks own words. Very easy and quick reading for the young as well as the elderly to enjoy. Also, many personal photos. Very good read. DG
emmaausten7 avatar reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on + 54 more book reviews
Good for youth. Definitely not a ground-breaking rehash.
SouthWestZippy avatar reviewed Rosa Parks: My Story on + 265 more book reviews
Taken from the back of the book."On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated but, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. " This story and many other of Rosa Parks defiance are in this eye-opening book. Some of these stories I have heard and others I have not. This book's target group is older children and young adult.