Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for A Mighty Long Way (Adapted for Young Readers): My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page.
January 16th
Reading Stewardess – Review, Playlist & Top 5 Reasons to Read A Mighty Long Way
January 17th
The Litt Librarian – Review
January 18th
Confessions of a YA Reader – Promotional Post
PopTheButterfly Reads – Review
January 19th
Stuck in Fiction – Promotional Post
Cocoa With Books – Review
January 20th
Twirling Book Princess – Review
TheGeekishBrunette – Promotional Post
January 21st
The nutty bookworm reads alot – Review
January 22nd
Paws.Read.Repeat – Review
January 16th
jl_books – Promotional Post
skygodess1 – Content Creator’s Choice
January 17th
writingrosereads – Promotional Post
thelittlibrarian – Content Creator’s Choice
January 18th
allielovestoread – Review & Favorite Quotes
popthebutterfly – Content Creator’s Choice
January 19th
booking.with.janelle – Promotional Post
cocoawithbooks – Content Creator’s Choice
January 20th
tbrandbeyond – Promotional Post
thegeekishbrunette – Content Creator’s Choice
January 21st
ninebookishlives – Promotional Post
secretrhs05 – Review, Favorite Quotes
January 22nd
shariva.writes – Review
get.outside.and.read – Promotional Post
paws.read.repeat – Content Creator’s Choice
Genre: Middle Grade Biography
Publishing date: January 17th, 2023
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Rep: Black, African American
Synopsis:
Follow the story of Carlotta Walls LaNier, who in 1957 at the age of fourteen was one of nine black students who integrated the all-white Little Rock Central High School and became known as the Little Rock Nine.
At fourteen years old, Carlotta Walls was the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine. The journey to integration in a place deeply against it would not be not easy. Yet Carlotta, her family, and the other eight students and their families answered the call to be part of the desegregation order issued by the US Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.
As angry mobs protested, the students were escorted into Little Rock Central High School by escorts from the 101st Airborne Division, which had been called in by then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower to ensure their safety. The effort needed to get through that first year in high school was monumental, but Carlotta held strong. Ultimately, she became the first Black female ever to walk across the Central High stage and receive a diploma.
The Little Rock Nine experienced traumatic and life-changing events not only as a group but also as individuals, each with a distinct personality and a different story. This is Carlotta’s courageous story.
Content Warning: racism, violence, segregation in education
Carlotta Walls LaNier attended Michigan State University and graduated from Colorado State College–now the University of Northern Colorado, on whose board of trustees she sits. After working for the YWCA, she founded her own real estate brokerage firm, LaNier and Company. A sought-after lecturer, LaNier speaks across the country, and she has received the Congressional Medal of Honor and two honorary doctorate degrees. She is the mother of two children, Whitney and Brooke, and lives in Englewood, Colorado, with her husband, Ira.
Carlotta Walls LaNier is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit http://www.prhspeakers.com.
Lisa Frazier Page, an editor and award-winning reporter at The Washington Post, is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream. A graduate of New Orleans’s Dillard University, Page holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She grew up in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband. They have four children.
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