Amazon.com description: Product Description: An ALA Notable Children’s Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Horn Book Fanfare Selection – Nonfiction Title A Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice An NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book An NAACP Image Awards Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens Winner of Bank Street College’s Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Nonfiction “Freedman does a masterful job.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A dramatic overview of how the 381-day resistance to segregated buses spearheaded the civil rights movement…” – Booklist (starred review) “Outstanding history…Exemplary.” – School Library Journal (starred review) “Expertly paced text, balanced but impassioned…Such is the immediacy of Freedman’s telling that by the time Martin Luther King Jr. steps onboard and takes ‘a seat in the front of the bus,’ readers will feed like cheering, as if they’re witnessing the historic moment themselves.” – The Horn Book (starred review)