Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 820L (~5th grade) · 2010
Why we'd hand it over
The book that should be taught instead of (or alongside) Rosa Parks—immediate, deeply researched, and co-authored with Claudette herself, making it both historically authoritative and emotionally resonant for kids discovering real people with real moral agency.