Morgan Reynolds Publishing

Children's Bookwatch, March, 2005

Morgan Reynolds Publishing

620 S. Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27406

$24.95 Each www.morganreynolds.com

Two excellent biographies are recommended picks for grades 4-6, providing kids with 160 pages packed with facts and history. Calvin Craig Miller's No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin & The Civil Rights Movement (1931798435) tells of the grandson of a former slave who was drawn to the world of the Harlem Renaissance, there to become an organizer working for civil rights. His passion for nonviolent protest was thwarted when he was prosecuted for a homosexual encounter and many movement leaders deserted him; yet his role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington proved pivotal in changing a nation, and Miller at last returns Rustin's story to the historical attention it deserves. Bruce L. Brager's There He Stands: The Story Of Stonewall Jackson (1931798-443) tells of an orphan who became a determined student, a military officer, and eventually the leader in a war which forced him to choose between two strong beliefs. An engrossing, inviting biography evolves.