This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Young Adult Fiction Fantasy - Contemporary African American & Black Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism Trotter doesn’t only narrate a

Trotter doesn’t only narrate a riveting and moving portrait of the artist as a young man

all the kids are excited

A 2025 CBC Best Children's Book of the Year selection

and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Young Adult Fiction Fantasy - Contemporary African American & Black Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism Trotter doesn’t only narrate aRecipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner of the 2019 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 2020 National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Honor Recipient A NYPL Top Ten of 2019 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African American students who broke the color