My Selma True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement Review posted April 6, 2024. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2023. 230 pages. Review written July 31, 2023, from my own copy sent by the publisher In My Selma, debut author Willie Mae Brown tells stories from her childhood, where she lived with her big family in Selma, Alabama.