A Place To Land: Martin Luther King Jr. And The Speech That Inspired A Nation

ISBN-10: 0823451135
ISBN-13: 9780823451135
Author: Wittenstein, Barry
Illustrated by: Pinkney, Jerry
Interest Level: 2-5
Publisher: Holiday House

Publication Date: January 2022

Copyright: 2019

Page Count: 48

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Interest Level

Grades 2-5

Reading Level

Lexile: 990L
Accelerated Reader Level: 5.6
Accelerated Reader Points: 0.5

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage

JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century

Description
Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he came to write it. Find out more in this gripping book with illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney. Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. "It's terrible to be circling up there without a place to land." Finding this place to land was what Martin Luther King, Jr. struggled with, alongside advisors and fellow speech writers, in the Willard Hotel the night before the March on Washington, where he gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. But those famous words were never intended to be heard on that day, not even written down for that day, not even once. Barry Wittenstein teams up with legendary illustrator Jerry Pinkney to tell the story of how, against all odds, Martin found his place to land.
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