Recommended Readings for Young Adults
![Book cover - A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., For Students](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/a_time_to_break_silence_beacon_press_cover_0.png?itok=5X93EQiw)
A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., For Students
Introduction by Walter Dean Myers
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2013.
![Book cover - Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories.](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/41y-copbttl_0.jpg?itok=O9QKDF_V)
Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activitists Tell Their Stories
Levine, Ellen.
Penguin, 2000.
![Book cover - Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March.](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/51xbfzaw6sl_0.jpg?itok=hSnLbSDf)
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Leacock, Elspeth.
Dial Books, 2015.
![Book cover - March: Book One.](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/8174bzq-adl_0.jpg?itok=bsgV2We-)
March: Book One
Lewis, John.
Top Shelf Productions, 2013.
![Book cover - Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement.](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/51duck7q7ql_0.jpg?itok=h7kHuRyX)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Lewis, John, and D’Orso, Michael.
Simon & Schuster, 2015.
![Book cover - The Radical King (King Legacy)](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/51tytmfm16l_0.jpg?itok=sq7z38fF)
The Radical King (King Legacy)
West, Cornel, ed.
Boston, MA: Beach Press, 2015.
![Book cover - Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/81cofunjzl_0.jpg?itok=ClKzz5ZC)
Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement
Medearis, Angela Shelf.
Puffin Books, 1999.
![Book cover - Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/514mpg0atel_0.jpg?itok=ZApOZqRt)
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Webb-Christburg, Sheyann.
University of Alabama Press, 1997.
![Book cover - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/513r8eblwdl_0.jpg?itok=tX2m1rlZ)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Hoose, Phillip.
Square Fish, 2010.
![Book cover - We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March.](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/81zb2780nal_0.jpg?itok=BBedUJrY)
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
Levinson, Cynthia.
Peachtree Publishers, 2015.
![Book cover - One Crazy Summer](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj27721/files/styles/medium/public/media/image/51y3y2qizal_0.jpg?itok=9vgO8U9p)
One Crazy Summer
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Amistad, 2011.