Story of Ruby Bridges (Special Anniversary)

Contributor(s): Coles, Robert (Author), Ford, George (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9780439472265

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Binding Types:

Paperback

$8.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$21.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$20.74 (100+ copies: $19.99)

List/retail price:

$8.99

Pub Date: September 1, 2010

Dewey: B

LCCN: 92033674

Lexile Code: 0730

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 04 to 08

Physical Info: 0.10" H x 10.00" L x 8.00" W ( 0.20 lbs) 32 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000014855 ( Story of Ruby Bridges (Special Anniversary))

Reading level: 4.40

Interest level: LG

Point value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

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Praise for The Story of Ruby Bridges

"Ford's moving watercolour paintings... capture the physical warmth of Ruby's family and community, the immense powers against her, and her shining inner strength." -- Booklist

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