1955年3月2日,阿拉巴马州一个热情洋溢的黑人女孩,因为受够了种族隔离制度的种种不公,拒绝在巴士上给一个白人妇女让座。仅仅九个月后,著名的罗莎·帕克斯因同样的行为,引发了蒙哥马利市长达381天的黑人抵制公交车运动。然而九个月前刚满15岁的克劳戴特·科尔文,并没有得到任何支持,反而在学校和社区遭到了孤立与指责。科尔文并没有因此而退缩,一年后,民权律师弗雷德·葛雷将蒙哥马利市的威廉·盖尔勒市长(Mayor William A.Gayle),告到美国联邦地区法院:他和蒙哥马利市的巴士公司,侵犯和剥夺了他的客户美国联邦宪法赋与的不可让渡的权利。这就是美国近代民权运动史上著名的艾瑞丽亚·包尔德对威廉·盖尔勒案(AureliaBrowder V. William A. Gayle),科尔文作为一名关键的原告出席了此案,并终赢得了“种族隔离”的废止。 本书以对科尔文的深入采
Two bothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in atrain robbery during Britain's countdown to join the Euro. Suddenlyfinding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have justone glorious, appalling dilemma how to spend it in the few daysbefore it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying amillion pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boyssoon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is theclock ticking the bungling bank robbers are closing in. Pizzas orWorld Peace, what would you choose?
This novel, written in diary form, tells of "a pivotal yearfor 19th-century New Englander Catherine Cabot Hill--one of change,loss, and leave taking . . . a low-key, intense and reflectivebook."--School Library Journal, starred review. 1980 Newbery Awardbook.