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Author : Melba Beals
Release Date : 24 July 2007
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages : 240
ISBN 13 : 9781416948827

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Book excerpt: The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white student and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

Warriors Don t Cry

Author : Melba Beals
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white student and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957....

Children Of The City

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Anchor
Genre : History
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The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing ...

They Called Me Number One

Author : Bev Sellars
Publisher : Talonbooks Limited
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, M�tis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner) Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent ...

March Forward Girl

Author : Melba Pattillo Beals
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes a powerful, timely new memoir about growing up in the segregated South. Civil rights heroine Melba Patillo Beals puts readers right in her saddle oxfords as she struggles to understand--and fight back against--the laws ...

Warriors Don t Cry

Author : Melba Pattillo Beals
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
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In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity. In 1957, well before Martin Luther ...

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

Author : Daisy Bates
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout ...

Warriors Don t Cry Abridged

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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A Grandma s Magic

Author : Charlotte Offsay
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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A picture book celebrating grandmas and all that makes them "magic", ideal for fans of How to Babysit a Grandma. "When a child is born, a grandma is born too. Grandmas aren't like regular grown-ups. Grandmas are filled with magic." In this charming picture book tribute to grandmas, a grandma's ...

I Will Not Fear

Author : Melba Pattillo Beals
Publisher : Baker Books
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened ...

Warrior of the Wild

Author : Tricia Levenseller
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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An eighteen-year-old chieftain's daughter must find a way to kill her village’s oppressive deity if she ever wants to return home in Warrior of the Wild, the Viking-inspired YA standalone fantasy from Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King. How do you kill a god? As her ...

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Author : Abbey Sharp
Publisher : Penguin
Genre : Cooking
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Gold Winner, 2019 Taste Canada Awards - Health and Special Diets Cookbooks Cheeky registered dietitian, food lover, and YouTube star Abbey Sharp is often described as "Nigella Lawson in a lab coat." In her debut cookbook she shares fun, satisfying, and unbelievably healthy recipes that will ignite your love affair with ...

The Rock and the River

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award, The Rock and the River was described in a Booklist starred review as a “taut, eloquent first novel [that] will make readers feel what it was like to be young, black, and militant.” The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago ...

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Author : Jo Nesbo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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“Large helpings of whimsy, humorous black-and-white illustrations, and the occasional fart joke provide plenty of silliness” (Booklist) in the third Doctor Proctor adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø. Nilly, Lisa, and Doctor Proctor are too busy inventing things to watch TV, and everyone says they’re missing ...

Black and British A short essential history

Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
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Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2021 Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 A short, essential introduction to Black British history for readers of 12+ by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are ...

The Overachievers

Author : Alexandra Robbins
Publisher : Hachette Books
Genre : Family & Relationships
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The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teens In Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our ...