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A Place To Land : Martin Luther King Jr. And The Speech That Inspired A Nation

by Barry Wittenstein

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Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he came to write it. Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. "It's terrible to be circling up there without a place to land." Finding this place to land was what Martin Luther King, Jr. struggled with, alongside advisors and fellow speech writers, in the Willard Hotel the night before the March on Washington, where he gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. But those famous words were never intended to be heard on that day, not even written down for that day, not even once. Barry Wittenstein teams up with legendary illustrator Jerry Pinkney to tell the story of how, against all odds, Martin found his place to land. An ALA Notable Children's Book A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title Nominated for an NAACP Image Award A Bank Street Best Book of the Year A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People A Booklist Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase

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Book Information

Copyright year 2019
ISBN-13 9780823443314
ISBN-10 0823443310
Class Copyright
Publisher Holiday House, Incorporated
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 48
Language ENG
Shelf No. ND073
Grade Range 2-5
Ages 7-10
Lexile 990L
Curriculums Texas Education Agency: Featured Titles Trademarks