Because of You, John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship By Andrea

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Because of You, John LewisAuthor(s): Andrea Davis Pinkney, Keith Henry Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Scholastic US, United States\nImprint: Scholastic US\nISBN-13: 9781338759082, 978-1338759082\nSynopsis\n\nAn inspiring story of a friendship between Congressman\nJohn Lewis and ten-year-old activist Tybre Faw byNew\nYork Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney!\n\nTen-year-old Tybre Faw is obsessed with history\nand the civil rights movement, and he devours\nevery book he can find on the subject. When he learns of Congressman\nJohn Lewis's harrowing and heroic march across the Edmund Pettus\nBridge in the fight for the right to vote, Tybre is determined\nto meet him.\n\nTybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma.\nAnd as the two meet and become fast friends, Tybre joins Lewis\nfor the annual walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge!\n\nWhen John Lewis is laid to rest, Tybre is invited to read Lewis's\nfavourite poem, \""Invictus,\"" at the funeral servicew