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Martin Rising

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Illustrator: Brian Pinkney

Ages: 12+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Scholastic Press

ISBN: 978-0-545-70253-9

Keywords: Civil rights movement, Diversity, Read-Aloud, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lyrical poetry vividly chronicles personal and public moments from Dr. King's birth through the last few moments of his life during those tumultuous 1968 days. Lush pastel mixed-media illustrations.