num_pages: 32
description: If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom.  In this book a bus does talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the Civil Rights movement. At the end of Marcie's magical ride, she meets Rosa Parks herself at a birthday party with several distinguished guests. Wait until she tells her class about this!
language: English
title: If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
titlecomplete: If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
characters: Rosa Parks
genres: Historical, History, Cultural, Kids, Picture Books, Childrens, African American, Biography, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 394
publisher: Aladdin