Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story

How I Discovered Poetry

Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition)

A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation

Thurgood Marshall

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to "speak what we see.".

Courage

Overcoming Obstacles

A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story

Marilyn Nelson, Tonya C. Hegamin, 2008

How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson, Hadley Hooper, 2014

Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition)

Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sara Jane Boyers, 1993

A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation

Jerry Pinkney, Barry Wittenstein, 2018

Thurgood Marshall

Jill C. Wheeler, 2003

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

Ekua Holmes, Carole Boston Weatherford, 2015

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day

Kathlyn J. Kirkwood, Steffi Walthall, 2022

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, 2018