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Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy
Deborah Wiles
Illustrator: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Ages: 6+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 978-0-545-17123-6
Keywords: Policital biography, history in 60s, civil rights movement, family
The family 'runt' as a youth, Kennedy evolved into an inspirational political figure of the late 1960s. Soft evocative drawings.