March: Book One

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.

Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole).

March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.

Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.

Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.

Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award -- Special Recognition
#1 Washington Post Bestseller
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
An ALA Notable Book
One of YALSA's Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
One of YALSA's Top 10 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
One of YALSA's Outstanding Books for the College Bound
One of Reader's Digest's Graphic Novels Every Grown-Up Should Read
Endorsed by NYC Public Schools' NYC Reads 365 program
Selected for first-year reading programs by Michigan State University, Marquette University, and Georgia State University
Nominated for three Will Eisner Awards
Nominated for the Glyph Award
Named one of the best books of 2013 by USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, The Horn Book, Paste, Slate, ComicsAlliance, Amazon, and Apple iBooks.

Author: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Published: 08/13/2013
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781603093002
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 165513 / March: Book One


Award: Virginia Readers Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers - Nominee
Award: Cybils - Finalist
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2013 pg. 57
Library Journal 07/01/2013 pg. 69
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2013
Publishers Weekly 07/15/2013
Shelf Awareness 08/13/2013
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 54
School Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 171
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/04/2013 pg. 28
New York Times Book Review 11/24/2013 pg. 38
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2013 pg. 31
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2013 pg. 34
Kirkus Best Young-Adult Books 12/01/2013 pg. 45
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2014 pg. 114
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2014 pg. 12
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 139 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Congressman John Lewis was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks, and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. He is co-author of the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir trilogy MARCH, written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell. He is also the recipient of numerous awards from national and international institutions including the Lincoln Medal, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NAACP Spingarn Medal, among many others. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

Andrew Aydin is creator and co-author of the #1 New York Times best-selling graphic memoir series, MARCH. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award, and is a recipient of the Will Eisner Comics Industry Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, among other honors. Aydin's other comics work includes writing the X-Files Annual 2016 (IDW), writing for the CBLDF Liberty Annual 2016 (Image), and writing an upcoming issue of Bitch Planet (Image).

Nate Powell is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes MARCH, You Don't Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence Of Our Friends, The Year Of The Beasts, and Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero. Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. Powell has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.