The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist Juvenile Fiction Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings African American & Black Science & Nature - Weather Karuna Riazi crafts a tender

Karuna Riazi crafts a tender coming-of-age story about friendship

“Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation

False hope

and because they are paradoxes and riddles that embrace the limits of our ability to know

The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist Juvenile Fiction Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings African American & Black Science & Nature - Weather Karuna Riazi crafts a tenderMeet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves youre never too little to make a difference. Nine year old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown ups talk about wiping out Birminghams segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the preachers words, smooth as glass, she sat up tall. And when