and has to look deep inside herself to realize that her family’s difference is their greatest strength

By listening to the music that’s lived in her heart all along

where he’s been imprisoned by some unknown force

HONOR 2016 - Ezra Jack Keats Book Award

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Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day Gigi Robinson and has to look deepThis brilliant memoir in verse tells the moving story of how a nation learned to celebrate a hero. Through years of protests and petition, Kathlyn's story highlights the foot soldiers who fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round is a deeply moving middle grade memoir about what it means to be an everyday activist and foot solider for racial justice, as Kathlyn recounts how, drawn to