Full name: My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Author: Christine King Farris Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Biographies, Picture books, History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780689843884 0689843887

Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement. Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down. Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history. Similar books: Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange I am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King by Ellen Levine Let the Trumpet Sound by Stephen B. Oates Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? by Bonnie Bader The House That Jane Built by Tanya Lee Stone The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton Around America to Win the Vote by Mara Rockliff Those Rebels, John & Tom by Barbara Kerley The First Step by Susan E. Goodman As Good as Anybody by Richard Michelson A Lady Has the Floor by Kate Hannigan Teedie by Don Brown If A Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan The Bus Ride that Changed History by Pamela Duncan Edwards Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges