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  <title>Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice</title>
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[lots of buzz this year]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't put down the first half of this, but then I found the 2nd half to be not quite as compelling.  The only reason I had to put it down halfway finished was because I was so exhausted that I had to go to sleep, but then it took me a few days to get back to it.  I'm always amazed when I can't put down a nonfiction title, though.  It happened with CHARLES AND EMMA this year, too, and it rarely happens for me twice in one year.  This LOOKS like a biography assignment book, but the writing and personal statements by the subject of the book (Ms. Covin)  make it so much more.  I had never even heard of this girl who came before Rosa Parks in Montgomery, but her story is inspirational, and it's very cool that she got to tell her story so many years later, and that a really good writer was motivated to take this on.  Should also be inspirational for pregnant/parenting teens. 4 1/2 stars.]]></body>
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