March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine

Melba Pattillo Beals, PhD, is the author of the bestselling book Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High and the recipient of both the 1995 American Library Association Nonfiction Book of the Year Award and the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. She was given a Congressional Gold Medal for her role, as a fifteen-year-old, in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Frank Morrison is the illustrator of Out of the Ballpark by Alex Rodriguez, Queen of the Scene by Queen Latifah, and Jazzy Miz Mozetta by Brenda C. Roberts, which was awarded a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.morrisongraphics.com.

Janina Edwards is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Acting Program. Based in Atlanta, she voices webinars, eLearning, and audiobooks in a variety of genres, including drama, romance, nonfiction, and mysteries.

★ "In a visceral and vital memoir, journalist and activist Beals (Warriors Don’t Cry), who integrated Central High School as one of the Little Rock Nine, recounts growing up African-American in 1940s Arkansas 'under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppression.'"- Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

"A valuable addition to the stories of life in Jim Crow America."-Kirkus, review

"Beals' recollection of white oppression and her rise above it will haunt readers. A must-read for teens."--School Library Journal

"Young readers will be gripped by Beals' personal courage and determination to march forward for civil rights at such a young age."--Booklist