If A Bus Could Talk, It Would Tell The Story Of A Young African-American Girl Named Rosa Who Had To Walk Miles To Her One-Room Schoolhouse In Alabama While White Children Rode To Their School In A Bus. It Would Tell How The Adult Rosa Rode To And From Work On A Segregated City Bus And Couldn't Sit In The Same Row As A White Person. It Would Tell Of The Fateful Day When Rosa Refused To Give Up Her Seat To A White Man And How That Act Of Courage Inspired Others Around The World To Stand Up For Freedom. In This Book A Bus Does Talk, And On Her Way To School A Girl Named Marcie Learns Why Rosa Parks Is The Mother Of The Civil Rights Movement. At The End Of Marcie's Magical Ride, She Meets Rosa Parks Herself At A Birthday Party With Several Distinguished Guests. Wait Until She Tells Her Class About This!