After a bit of a hiatus earlier this week, our featured blog reviews are back with Junior High Nonfiction nominee March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine, a memoir written by civil rights activist Melba Pattillo Beals and illustrated by Frank Morrison. One of our Round 1 judges, Rebecca G. Aguilar, reviewed this book on her blog, Mostly About Nonfiction:
Beals was one of the brave Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957. She tells her story in March Forward, Girl with the no-holds-barred truth that captivated adult readers of her bestseller autobiography Warriors Don’t Cry.