AUTHOR: Ruby Bridges
GENRE: Auto-biography
THEMES: Civil Rights Movement, African American History
AWARDS: Orbis Pictus Award
PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: Scholastic Press, 1999
SUMMARY: This book is an auto-biography written by Ruby Bridges about the trials that she had to face when the schools became segregated. She writes about what it was like for a young girl to have to be escorted into and out of school every morning. What it was like to have people yelling hateful things at her, to not have any other students in class.
This book like many that I have read for this class would be great to teach students what it was like to be segregated, and the troubles that many American's faced back in the 1950-1960 era.
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