The Story of Ruby Bridges
Coles, Robert
Ford, George (ILT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Category: BiographyPlease, God, try to forgive those people. Because even if they say those bad things, They don't know what they're doing.This is the true story of an extraordinary 6-year-old who helped shape history when she became the first African-American sent to first grade in an all white school. This moving book captures the courage of a little girl standing alone in the face of racism.Ford's moving watercolor paintings...capture the...warmth of Ruby's family and community, the immense powers against her, and her shining inner strength. --Booklist
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0439598443
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 370.19/342
Library of Congress: bl2004005000
Book Publisher: Scholastic
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 32
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