"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights. In the early 1960s, tensions in the segregated South intensified. Tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King,...

Johnny Jakes, undercover reporter for the banned school newspaper "The Woodford Word," investigates Principal Victory Piggot, who returns as a ghost and plots to begin mysterious experiments on students unless Jonny and his friends can stop him.