The Story of Ruby Bridges
by:
George Ford (author)
Robert Coles (author)
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first African American child to integrate a New Orleans school with this paperback reissue!The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby...
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first African American child to integrate a New Orleans school with this paperback reissue!The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to send their children to school with her. Told with Robert Coles' powerful narrative and dramatically illustrated by George Ford, Ruby's story of courage, faith, and hope is now available in this special 50th anniversary edition with an updated afterword!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780439472265 (0439472261)
ASIN: 439472261
Publish date: September 1st 2010
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
African American,
Family,
Education,
Picture Books
I prefer Ruby Bridges's own memoir for children, Through My Eyes.
This is an educational read for read for kids wanting to learn more about this time in history. It has great pictures, and not an overwhelming amount of text, so it would be good to read to a group of younger kids, while teaching them something about history. I just wished it had focused more on the...
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