Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues by Harriette Gillem Robinet Paperback Book

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Rent Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues

Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks

Published: Jan 2002

Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century

Retail Price: $7.99

Ages: 08 - 12

Pages: 160

Synopsis

'Oh, I'm singing the bus-rider blues,
the Alabamy bus-rider blues.
I got me a feeling, deep down inside,
It ain't never ever gonna be the same.'

During the Alabama bus boycott, six months after Rosa Parks made her famous bus protest, Alfa Merryfield and his family struggle to pay the rent. But someone keeps stealing their rent money -- and now someone is accusing them of stealing!

With only a few days left before rent is due, Alfa and his sister, Zinnia, know they don't have much time. To solve this mystery, they must 'walk the walk and talk the talk of nonviolence' that Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders preach -- and what they discover may be more than they dreamed...

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