Status
Available
Publication
Scholastic Press (1999), Edition: First Edition, 63 pages
Library's review
In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history
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through her own words.-Amazon description
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Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2002)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 2002)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2003)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2003)
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2003)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (1999)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2002)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee — 2003)
Cardinal Cup (Honor — 2000)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2001-2002)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature (Honor Book — 2000)
Orbis Pictus Award (Winner — 2000)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Winner — 2000)
Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Winner — 2000)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 2003)
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (2000)
CCBC Choices (2000)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (13th Edition: 1999-2001)
Notable Children's Book (2000)
Teacher Favorites Award (2000)
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0590189239 / 9780590189231