A bus of our own
By: written by Freddi Williams Evans ; illustrated by Shawn Costello.
Contributors: Costello, Shawn, ill.
Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Morton Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; School buses -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; Segregation -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mabel Jean and the other black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white children have. Based on real events in Mississippi.