Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of

the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Jonah Winter, illus. by Shane W. Evans.

“Simple yet powerful, Lillian’s narrative transforms a

complex topic into an affecting story suitable for a younger
audience, making it a perfect introduction to voting and civil
rights. An important book that will give you goose bumps.”
—Booklist, starred  review
Bibliography of the author :

Jonah Winter is the award-winning, celebrated

author of over 40 nonfiction picture books,
including New York Times bestseller,
BARACK. His book about racial injustice and
voting rights, LILLIAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE,
was a 2016 Jane Addams Award Honor Book
and a 2015 Kirkus Prize finalist. A poet, painter,
musician, and cook, Jonah Winter divides his
time between New York City and a small town
in Pennsylvania.
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers
her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing
in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
 
As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes
a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, she sees more than
trees and sky—she sees her family’s history. She sees the passage
of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the
first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she
sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery.
Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta
Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans vividly recall
America’s battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one
woman’s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her
voice heard.
glossary:
en route
/ˌän ˈro͞ot/

adverb
during the course of a journey; on the way.
"he stopped in Turkey en route to Geneva"
Similar:
• on the way
• in transit
• on the journey
• during the journey
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith is a non
fiction and historical biography for young adults by
Deborah Heiligman. First published in 2008, the book
explores Charles Darwin’s personal life, and how his
relationship with his religious wife affected his work. The
book won the 2010 YALSA Award for Excellence in
Nonfiction, and it received various other prestigious
nominations. Heiligman is the bestselling author of
numerous middle grade and young adult books. She also
writes nonfiction for younger people of all ages.
Deborah Heiligman is the author of Charles and Emma:
The Darwins' Leap of Faith, a National Book Award finalist
and winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in
Nonfiction for Young Adults. She has written more than
twenty books for children, most of them nonfiction. She
graduated from Brown University, and started her writing
career working for Scholastic News Explorer, the
classroom magazine. She loved this job, but left when she
had children and wanted to be home with them, and then
she started writing her books. She is married to Jonathan
Weiner, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for The Beak of
the Finch
Deborah Heiligman's new biography of Charles Darwin is a thought-provoking account of the man
behind evolutionary theory: how his personal life affected his work and vice versa. The end result is an
engaging exploration of history, science, and religion for young readers.

Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the
fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create
tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory of
evolution in schools occur annually all over the country. This same debate raged within Darwin himself,
and played an important part in his marriage: his wife, Emma, was quite religious, and her faith gave
Charles a lot to think about as he worked on a theory that continues to spark intense debates.

Charles and Emma is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
INTERNET RESOURCES :

www.jonahwinter.com
• Teaching Tolerance. This website from the nonprofit Southern
Poverty Law Center offers a wide range of classroom resources
and lesson plans at all levels about tolerance, racism, and
related subjects. http://www.tolerance.org/
http://www.supersummary.com/charles-and-emma-the-darwin
s-leap-of-faith/summary/